Luke Sibieta

This article looks at School Spending in England 2010–15.

There were large cuts to the public workforce over the last parliament during a period of fiscal consolidation. The pace of public workforce cuts is likely to accelerate over the new parliament. This Briefing Note, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), looks at the movement between jobs, or ‘mobility’, of workers in the public and private sectors. It sets out the extent to which reductions in the public workforce to date have been delivered by freezing recruitment of new workers and not replacing workers who move to non-employment, and through more workers moving from the public sector to the private sector than moving in the other direction.

This briefing note focuses on changes in schools spending in England over time, comparing these with other areas of education spending, and examines how reforms to school funding have affected different groups of schools.

This article was written for Coalition Economics, which is hosting a collection of contributions from leading economic experts, intended to provide critical but fair assessments of the economic policies pursued by the coalition government in the UK since May 2010.

School funding per pupil increased substantially between 1999-00 and 2012-13 in England. In this paper, we decompose these increases in funding per pupil into the amount explained by quantities of different types of staff per pupil, their price and changes in non-staffing costs.

This report focuses on trends in public sector pay and compares these with what has been happening in the private sector.

This report looks at the reasons why the achievement gap between pupils from advantaged and disadvantaged backgrounds has narrowed in London and asked whether this can be replicated elsewhere.