Sample letter to MPs To find the name and contact details of the MP for your use the tool on school’s constituency, the Parliament website here () Please customise this template to make it your own. Please also let us know if your MP responds to your letter by emailing: [Your school name and address] Dear [insert MP’s name], Autumn Budget - School Funding I am writing to you to highlight the serious concerns I have about school funding, and to ask you to write to the Chancellor Philip Hammond to secure the funding schools in your constituency need. In recent years it has become apparent that current budgets are unsustainable [insert personal experiences of funding]. Our school is not alone. The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) has shown that seven out of ten school leaders think that their budgets will be unsustainable by the 2019 academic year. In July, the Department for Education re-allocated £1.3 billion for schools from existing budgets, but this is over two years and is not sufficient. Nationally, there is a £2bn gap in funding each year until 2022. that the Treasury must now provide additional resources to resolve the funding crisis. This It’s clear Budget represents the best chance to start to address this. Many heads have welcomed plans for a national funding formula but there enough simply isn’t money to go round in the first place. Assurances that no school will lose out under the changes is a welcome first step, but schools will be hit by real terms cuts outside of this new mechanism. I would like to ask you, as a matter of urgency, to write to the Chancellor Philip Hammond to call on him to provide more money for our schools. School budgets are being pushed beyond breaking point, and this Budget is an opportunity to prevent further cuts in the years ahead. I hope you can put pressure on the government to make sure schools in your constituency can continue to deliver for all pupils. Yours sincerely, [Name] [School name and address]
Sample letter to MPs To find the name and contact details of the MP for your school’s constituency, use the tool on the Parliament website here () Please customise this template to make it your own. Please also let us know if your MP responds to your letter by emailing: [Your school name and address] Dear [insert MP’s name], Autumn Budget - School Funding I am writing to you to highlight the serious concerns I have about school funding, and to ask you to write to the Chancellor Philip Hammond to secure the funding schools in your constituency need. In recent years it has become apparent that current budgets are unsustainable [insert personal experiences of funding]. Our school is not alone. The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) has shown that seven out of ten school leaders think that their budgets will be unsustainable by the 2019 academic year. In July, the Department for Education re-allocated £1.3 billion for schools from existing budgets, but this is over two years and is not sufficient. Nationally, there is a £2bn gap in funding each year until 2022. It’s clear that the Treasury must now provide additional resources to resolve the funding crisis. This Budget represents the best chance to start to address this. Many heads have welcomed plans for a national funding formula but there simply isn’t enough money to go round in the first place. Assurances that no school will lose out under the changes is a welcome first step, but schools will be hit by real terms cuts outside of this new mechanism. I would like to ask you, as a matter of urgency, to write to the Chancellor Philip Hammond to call on him to provide more money for our schools. School budgets are being pushed beyond breaking point, and this Budget is an opportunity to prevent further cuts in the years ahead. I hope you can put pressure on the government to make sure schools in your constituency can continue to deliver for all pupils. Yours sincerely, [Name] [School name and address]