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£1 Billion extra funding for schools, where's it going?

The government has allocated another £1 billion to children, schools and families over the next three years.

While the plan does not have direct impact on the rest of the UK it is likely that it will lead to pressure for action in similar areas in Wales, Scotland and N Ireland – not least in its approach that states that the school should be the centre of the community

It is a huge package of measures, and difficult to make overall sense of. But Tony Attwood from Hamilton House has done his best.

Nothing explicitly mentions school councils, but I’ve italicized sections that I think we could have a particular input into – Asher