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Notice of Motion - 23 November 2006

State School Pupil Funding

"This Council congratulates Hampshire pupils on, once again, achieving GCSE results that outperform the national trend. The results reflect tremendous credit on Pupils, Teachers, Parents, Governors and County Council Officers who have all contributed to this success. They were gained despite the fact that, of the 150 Local Education Authorities funded by Government, Hampshire receives the lowest per pupil funding support of any LEA in the South East and is in the bottom ten in the Country as a whole.

At £3,740 pa the Hampshire figure is well below the average for England of £4,130 pa and a fraction of the amount paid in Central Government grant to the top eighteen Authorities who receive up to just under £6,500 pa.

In the new era of Direct Schools Grants this Council does not accept that it costs half as much to educate a child in Hampshire as it does in Hackney and calls on Government to recognise this in its current commitment to bring State School Pupil Funding to parity with Private Schools."

Proposer: Cllr David Kirk