Our local sixth forms are having their funding cut by £587,547, which is the equivalent to the funding for eighty-one pupils.

This is part of the fallout from the blunder made by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), which has caused a national shortfall in post-16 education funding. The LSC’s mistake was exposed earlier this month when schools and colleges were told their budgets would be slashed, despite having been told in March what their funding would be be for the next academic year. Not a good way of doing budgeting!