Haringey Liberal Democrats will today call for the Leader of the Council to press the Labour Government for an urgent review of the current system of financing state education after this year’s schools cash crisis in the borough. The move comes in a motion to tonight’s Full Council.

Although the Government has announced an £800 million stop-gap to Local Education Authorities (LEAs) for next year, there is concern from the Lib Dems that this short term solution will not be followed up with long term plans to resolve the under funding for local schools.

Lib Dem Leader, Ross Laird, who is proposing the motion tonight, comments:

“The problem of under funding of schools in Haringey is a problem that has to be addressed and I hope that all councillors will support this motion.

“Teachers and pupils in the borough have worked under difficult conditions for far too long. As a community we cannot afford to let the Government treat education as another service that can be cut back. We must make it clear that enough is enough.”