§ Mr. DawsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what arrangements he has made to fund teachers' planning, preparation and assessment time. [176555]
§ Mr. Miliband[holding answer 22 June 2004]: The Government, in common with the other signatories to the National Agreement, believe that much can be achieved through redeploying existing resources.
However, we recognise that some schools will require headroom in their budgets in order to meet the contractual change from September 2005. We shall decide later in the summer what kind of arrangements are needed to underpin the planning, preparation and assessment (PPA) reforms in the school funding system for 2005–06.
To that end, we are currently working with six LEAs and about a dozen schools in each of those LEAs to get a better understanding of their starting points, how they plan to deliver the reforms and to what extent this can be achieved through the redeployment of existing resources.
We will use the information produced in order to review the funding implications of the reforms.