Submitted on Saturday 4th April 2020
Rejected on Thursday 4th June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Cancel the debt of maintained schools in UK.
Cancelling the debt of all maintained schools, similar to cancelling NHS debt, will promote better education and enrichment of our children and a better work environment for the teaching profession. Similar benefits would arise from debt cancellation for early years, further education etc
Schools and Local Authorities have been underfunded due to austerity in the last 10 years. "Since 2009-10, school spending per pupil has fallen by 8% in real-terms in England" - https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/14345 (Aug 2019)
Schools use taxpayer funding to pay staff, maintain buildings, provide support for vulnerable children and educate and enrich our children. Schools in debt due to under-funding are now paying taxpayers money, intended to educate children, as interest to... banks.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We understand that you want the Government to change how maintained-schools are funded, but it's unclear if you want the Government to cancel debts between schools and local authorities or central government, or private lending with banks.
The Government could cancel or fund local authorities to cancel debts with local authorities or central government, but for private debts the Government could only provide schools with additional funding so that they can pay these off themselves, as they will be private arrangements between the school and lender.
You could start a new petition calling on the Government to provide funding to enable maintained-schools to pay off their debt, or a similar action.
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