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The comprehensive spending review & the education sector with Luke Sibieta

8 December 2021

Join Luke Sibieta, on Wednesday, 8 December, to find out what the budget means for your organisation and the sector more widely.  

When

2pm - 3pm

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Free for members / £50 for non-members

Join Luke Sibieta, on Wednesday, 8 December, to find out what the budget means for your organisation and the sector more widely.  

 

In October the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, delivered his Autumn Budget and Spending review promising an 'age of optimism' despite the economic shock. The chancellor said that his plans were focused on the "post-Covid" era, and would pave the way for an "economy of higher wages, higher skills, and rising productivity". 

 For the education sector, Rishi Sunak announced a Budget and Spending Review filled with seemingly good news – with headline announcements including £4.bn extra schools funding and £1.8bn for catch-up. However, analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has shown that the increases in education spending in England is lower than the increases seen in other departments and with the end of the public sector pay freeze, Treasury documents reveal that the extra funding will go towards “supporting delivery” of its pledge to raise new teacher starting salaries to £30,000. 

Luke Sibieta 

Luke joined the Education Policy Institute in October 2017 as a Research Fellow. Luke has worked on the economics of education since 2005 when he joined the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He has produced numerous influential pieces of research on school funding, educational inequalities and has undertaken a range of impact evaluations. He led the Education and Skills research team at the Institute for Fiscal Studies from 2012 to 2017 and continues as a Research Fellow. 

In the recent past, he has conducted research into the following specific areas: school funding; the impact of the home learning environment on child outcomes; trends in top incomes; trends in child poverty and income inequality; and the politics of tax policy.