{"id":3031,"date":"2023-07-18T11:40:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T11:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2023-07-18T11:41:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T11:41:22","slug":"extra-funding-for-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=3031","title":{"rendered":"Extra funding for schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sir John Whittingdale MP strongly welcomes the Government\u2019s recent announcement that schools in England are being allocated \u00a360bn of funding, in 2024-2025, taking funding to its highest ever level in history. Mainstream schools will now receive an average of around \u00a36,000 per pupil, ensuring that every child will benefit from a world class education.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This extra funding can be used for staff salaries, school running costs, educational trips and classroom equipment.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sir John said:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cI am very pleased that schools in my constituency will benefit from the increase in education funding announced by the Government. I am proud of the excellent schools in our constituency, and I know that increasing costs have made things difficult this academic year. I am sur that this extra money will make a real difference in helping teachers in their jobs, and giving students the quality education they deserve.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3032\" width=\"519\" height=\"519\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir John Whittingdale MP strongly welcomes the Government\u2019s recent announcement that schools in England are being allocated \u00a360bn of funding, in 2024-2025, taking funding to its highest ever level in history. Mainstream schools will now receive an average of around \u00a36,000 per pupil, ensuring that every child will benefit from a world class education.&nbsp;&nbsp; This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-westminster-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions\/3034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}