Summary of f40 Campaign
A total of 14,402 campaign letters were received from parents, teachers and schools as part of an f40 campaign.
The Fair Education Funding Forum (f40) group was formed to highlight the inequalities of education funding and is made up of the lowest funded Education Authorities, which are: Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Leicestershire, North Yorkshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire, Wiltshire Worcestershire, Bury, Dudley, North Tyneside, Solihull, Stockport, Trafford, Tameside, Wakefield, Wigan, Bath & North East Somerset, East Riding of Yorkshire, North Somerset, Poole, Rutland, Swindon, Warrington, West Berkshire, Wokingham and York.
Most responses in this campaign expressed support for the f40 resolution:
'The f40 Group welcomes Government recognition of the need to remove unjustifiable inequalities in the system for funding education. The next three months give an opportunity for authorities, governors, teachers and parents to influence future plans.
The Group is now keen to work with DfEE and DTLR in the positive spirit of levelling up the worst funded areas. However, we are greatly concerned that the Government appears to contemplate that the existing injustices will be continued for another three years.
We strongly urge the Government to act now to provide additional funding for levelling up from April 2001. This will provide a temporary solution under the existing discredited system while the new long-term proposals are being developed.
The f40 Group is of the opinion that the proposed three year freeze to the SSA formula is unacceptable'.
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Published 5 March 2001
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