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| Spending per pupil in schools in England is likely to fall by 8% in real terms over the next five years, the Institute for Fiscal Studies warns. | Spending per pupil in schools in England is likely to fall by 8% in real terms over the next five years, the Institute for Fiscal Studies warns. |
| It argues that school funding levels will feel quite different in the next five years from the previous five. | It argues that school funding levels will feel quite different in the next five years from the previous five. |
| Schools are set to face real-terms reductions in spending per pupil for first time since the 1990s, it adds. | Schools are set to face real-terms reductions in spending per pupil for first time since the 1990s, it adds. |
| The report, however, says schools have been protected in recent years compared with other government departments. | The report, however, says schools have been protected in recent years compared with other government departments. |
| 'Pressures' | 'Pressures' |
| Although there will be similar growth in nominal spending to that in the last Parliament, resources will shrink because of rising costs and increasing pupil numbers, it says. | Although there will be similar growth in nominal spending to that in the last Parliament, resources will shrink because of rising costs and increasing pupil numbers, it says. |
| Key cost increases include: | Key cost increases include: |
| "Taking these together with pressures on other costs, we forecast that school spending per pupil is likely to fall by around 8% in real terms [based on a school-specific measure of inflation] between 2014-15 and 2019-20," the report says. | "Taking these together with pressures on other costs, we forecast that school spending per pupil is likely to fall by around 8% in real terms [based on a school-specific measure of inflation] between 2014-15 and 2019-20," the report says. |
| 'Fairer funding' | |
| But a spokesman for the Department for Education said: "We are ensuring schools across England are funded fairly so all pupils, whatever their background and wherever they live in the country, have access to a good education. | |
| "We have maintained per pupil funding and will make funding fairer. | |
| "Despite the economic climate we have already committed an additional £390m to the least fairly-funded areas in the country. | |
| "It is down to councils to determine exactly how funding is allocated to individual schools." | |
| The National Union of Teacher said many schools and colleges were already struggling. | |
| Deputy general secretary Kevin Courtney said: "At a time when we face major problems with teacher supply, IFS notes that the government's pay cap of 1% could make recruitment and retention more difficult. | |
| "With pupil numbers rocketing, we need to recruit more teachers just to stand still and we need to invest in capital funding to provide the new places needed." |