Hundreds of councillors urge government to pump billions of pounds into cash-strapped schools
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'The cuts to school budgets have reached epidemic levels,' letter to Damian Hinds warns.
By Eleanor Busby
Hundreds of local councillors are calling on the Education Secretary to urge the Government to pump billions of pounds into funding schools.
In a letter to Damian Hinds, signed by more than 1,000 councillors, they say many schools are now ‘desperately overwhelmed’ as more students are competing for fewer resources.
The current situation is ‘not tenable’ amid cuts to local council services and a recruitment and retention crisis across the profession, they add.
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