The budget proposed by the Tories in Wales would lead to additional education funding cuts equivalent to over £40,000 per school by the financial year 2013-14 according to figures released by Plaid Cymru today.
Plaid Cymru education spokesperson Nerys Evans AM has slammed the Tory funding proposals as ‘crushing’. Ms Evans said that while Plaid recognises the vital role that education will play in the future of Wales, especially in terms of the economic recovery, the Tory plans would badly let down the children of Wales and, she fears, would set education in Wales back by at least a generation.
Plaid Cymru’s Education spokesperson and candidate for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, Nerys Evans AM said:
“The true cost of the Tory budget proposals for schools in Wales would be devastating. Their plans would mean crushing additional cuts to education equivalent to well over £40,000 per school by 2013-14. Thankfully the Tories are not in a position to implement their plans which would let down Wales and Welsh children very badly indeed.
“Plaid Cymru is ambitious for education in Wales. It is vital for the future of our nation and our economy that it is made a central plank of the next government. The Tories meanwhile have taken a very short term approach geared solely, I fear, towards grabbing a few cheap headlines. The reality of their rhetoric would lead to schools, and learning more widely, being severely underfunded, condemning our children to a second class education. This would have disastrous consequences for our economy and for the well being of our nation.”
