22/04/2025 11:09
The Guardian
Prime minister says he thinks court’s decision has given a ‘much clearer position for those drawing up guidance’Keir Starmer has been visiting a military base with his New Zealand counterpart, Christopher Luxon, this morning to promote a joint training initiative for Ukrainian troops.In an overnight news release about the visit, Downing Street says:New Zealand trainers have worked alongside British counterparts to help train more than 54,000 soldiers on Operation Interflex, and New Zealand are expected to today confirm that they will extend their support for the initiative in the UK until the end of the year.In addition to their support for training Ukrainian troops, military planners from the New Zealand Defence Force are contributing to the latest thinking and plans for post-conflict support for Ukraine through the Coalition of the Willing.While we welcome the intentions behind the programme, the initial feedback we are hearing from many school leaders participating in the pilot is that the funding just isn’t sufficient. At a time when school budgets are already stretched, most can ill-afford to subsidise this shortfall.The funding that we’re putting in place is more generous than schemes that came before.I’m afraid this 60p number that gets bandied about just isn’t right. That is the daily funding rate for children, but, alongside that, schools get an initial start-up grant, and they get a termly payment of £1,000. So it is more generous than that. Continue reading...
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