Is your sixth form adequately funded? Get your experience represented in Parliament

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Has your sixth form been impacted by funding decisions?

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How have changes to budgets affected you and your classmates?

On Tuesday, Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP will lead a Parliamentary debate on how funding for post-16 education affects students like you.

To help him prepare for his debate, he wants to hear from those with direct experience of the issue.

Tell us about your experiences by midday on Monday 24 February. We will pass them on to him and he may quote and refer to your comments during his speech.

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A bit of context:

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has estimated that school spending per pupil reduced by 8% in real terms between 2009/10 and 2018/19. In 2019, the Johnson Government announced significant real-terms school funding increases of £4.4 billion between 2019/20 and 2022/23. However, these figures exclude post-16 funding.

In terms of sixth form funding, the Sixth Form College Association states that the national funding rate for 16- and 17-year olds has remained frozen at £4,000 per student, per year since 2013. They argue that £4,760 is required to deliver high-quality, internationally competitive education.

See the House of Commons Library Insight: School funding in England: sufficient and fair?

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