Weston’s MP, John Penrose, has welcomed figures showing that Weston’s local schools will get significantly increased funding per pupil as he’s been demanding for years. Local schools will get an average 5.0% cash boost per pupil – one of the largest in the country – to an average of £4655…
Imagine a world where Eton awarded its own A-levels. No one else could take them and, if you got an A grade in, for example, chemistry, it was worth more than an A grade in the same subject from any other exam board. It would be hideously unfair. Etonians would…
Weston’s MP, John Penrose, has welcomed this week’s announcement that local schools will get the fairer funding he’s been demanding for years, as the National Funding Formula is backed up with a record £14 billion extra cash. The money means every secondary school in Weston will get at least £5,000…
For well over a year there’s been a steady trickle of local families with autistic children coming to my weekly surgery. They’ve been having problems getting the all-important diagnosis to unlock vital extra funds and support at school. Some of them are having to wait months or even years to…