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Cuts and closures

March 2024

  • Lecturers on a picket line at Goldsmiths in 2022.

    Goldsmiths academics to strike over ‘incomprehensible’ redundancies

    Union says cuts will make the creative powerhouse unrecognisable and risk unprecedented industrial unrest

October 2023

  • An empty classroom

    Cuts could reduce education in England to ‘bare bones’, headteachers say

    Funding error on top of previous shortfalls may force schools to cut enrichment activities and reduce special educational needs support

July 2023

  • Kit de Waal.

    ‘I’m horrified by it. I think it’s appalling’: Kit de Waal on the crisis of cuts facing the arts

  • Teacher at a further education college teaches pupils in a classroom.

    Further education students in England hit by ‘extreme poverty’, report finds

October 2022

  • Ambulances outside a hospital in London

    ‘No fat left to trim’: how spending cuts could affect UK government

  • Jeremy Hunt outside BBC Broadcasting House

    Health and teaching unions aghast at Jeremy Hunt’s new era of Tory austerity

June 2022

  • Student in school uniform looks at a book in a library

    Schools and libraries face huge cuts after soaring costs create £1.7bn shortfall

    Exclusive: Emergency council cuts feared across England caused by inflation and higher energy costs

March 2022

  • A child experimenting with water outside at Pen Green nursery

    Influential Pen Green children’s centre saved from closure after council U-turn

  • Two happy girls play on bikes

    Influential Pen Green children’s centre faces closure due to council cuts

August 2021

  • Wes Streeting

    ‘The hypocrisy is nauseating’: Wes Streeting on state school arts cuts

    Shadow child poverty secretary wants all pupils to have access to arts education after decade of Tory cuts

June 2021

  • the playwright Laura Wade.

    Lack of support for theatre is to discourage dissent, says top playwright

    Laura Wade, writer of Posh and Home, I’m Darling, criticises government’s attitude to industry as unions fight cuts to performing arts degrees

May 2021

  • An archaeologist excavates the Saxon ‘Prince of Prittlewell’ grave site before developers move in.

    Help our profession or UK’s shared history will be lost, say archaeologists

    Brexit and university cutbacks are fuelling a crisis in recruitment of skilled workers

April 2021

  • Lollard Street adventure playground in south London

    Parents forced to crowdfund to stop playgrounds in England crumbling

    Plans for a ‘summer of play’ after lockdown in jeopardy as budget cuts see parks neglected

June 2020

  • Red chairs and yellow tables in an empty classroom.

    Decade of progress in tackling pupil disadvantage 'wiped out'

    Education charity finds coronavirus school closures may have reversed years of work to narrow gap in England

May 2020

  • a small girl on a tatty estate

    Time for a government U-turn over the UK's shocking child poverty levels

    Mary Bousted
    Nine children in every school class of 30 are poor, as teachers know well. Has the pandemic at last made ministers care about it?

March 2020

  • Libby Lisgo, councillor, in Taunton

    Councillor's 'oven-ready' scheme to force private schools to pay their bit

  • Demonstrators calling for an end to the cuts

    The lost decade: the hidden story of how austerity broke Britain

January 2020

  • Laura McInerney

    The Tories are hiding from blame for youth crime. That’s not on

    Laura McInerney
    Exclusions are not the real problem – it’s cuts in schools and youth support that are responsible

December 2019

  • Chris Dyson, headteacher, with children of Parklands primary in Leeds

    ‘Many of our children don’t get presents’: schools open over Christmas for families with nothing

    Headteachers tell of the challenges brought by 10 years of austerity – and their hopes and fears for the new year

November 2019

  • Mark Lehain outside Bedford Free School

    ‘It hasn’t been easy being a Tory in education’: meet the teachers standing for election

    Four would-be MPs – Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem and Green – explain why they hope to swap the classroom for the Commons
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