Who is defending Redditch Schools from funding cuts?

In response to my calls for the Redditch County Councillors and the Member of Parliament to meet with the DfE to defend Redditch schools I was told Worcestershire MP's would debate school funding this week in Parliament with a Schools Minister.

I have raised my concerns, those of Headteachers, teaching staff, governors and parents a number of times, in summary that:

• Suggested school funding reforms are flawed, when schools in Redditch just 3 miles apart could see one school gain over £200,000 with another losing over £200,000.
• Urban schools in deprived areas will lose out disproportionately.
• Worcestershire has fallen 6 places down the school funding league table in the last two years.
• Government reforms will see Redditch schools lose £300,000 in April.
• In 2015 Redditch schools could lose a further £1.5 million.
• Taking into account Redditch schools who could benefit, net losses could total three quarters of a million pounds.
• Even the schools who stand to gain in Redditch have voiced their concern about neighbouring schools who could lose up to 17% of their funding in 2015.
• More Redditch schools are set lose than gain.
• Three tier education in Redditch has not been taken into account, with reforms favouring two tier.
• Concern that the same lump sum will not address the needs of individual schools.
• Lack of detail on Minimum Funding Guarantee beyond 2015 is extremely worrying.
• Consultees were not given enough time (some governors having 4 working days notice) to comment on the most significant school funding reforms since the 80's.

I am shocked that the Redditch MP did not raise the challenges these reforms throw up for Redditch schools in today's debate.

This was a lost opportunity by the Redditch MP to advise the Schools Minster on how the reforms affect Redditch schools, so that our children's needs could be taken into account. I notice other Worcestershire MP's raise individual concerns for their constituencies, such as three tier, financial losses, the lump sum and Minimum Funding Guarantee, yet no mention of how our schools in Redditch are and could be affected.

After attending Worcestershire County Council's Cabinet meeting last week, where no Redditch County Councillor spoke on Redditch schools, I am left wondering who is defending Redditch schools from funding cuts?

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