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Three quarters of primary school headteachers are cutting teaching assistant (TAs) numbers, a survey has found.

One in three school leaders in England say they are having to cut back on teaching staff to save money, according to a new survey.

A poll by the National Foundation for Educational Research found primary schools were hardest hit by funding pressures, with 50% of senior leaders relying on pupil premium cash

Since the abolition of maintenance grants in England, students from lower income backgrounds have been leaving university with the highest levels of debt. A third of students from working class families have skipped meals to save on food costs.

The Sutton Trust says that the next government needs to do much more for the most disadvantaged youngsters, which means increasing funding for low-income pupils, and taking hunger out of the classroom.

A 50 per cent reduction in funding for the government’s national tutoring programme (NTP) could widen the attainment gap between students from disadvantaged families and their peers, the Sutton Trust has warned.

Sir Peter Lampl says children ‘bust their guts’ when they get the chance but are being failed by ministers who come and go like a ‘bloody railway station’

The Sutton Trust says only 20 per cent of families earning less than £20,000 a year will have access to the planned expansion of funded places for early years provision, compared to 80 per cent of those with household incomes over £45,000.

The early years sector is increasingly moving towards offering childcare “at the expense of providing high quality education” due to “mounting pressures” on providers, according to latest research.

Many who praise a headteacher for preventing Muslim prayers are oddly sanguine about the number of faith schools in Britain, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee