SCHOOLS which will lose out the most in Bolton under proposed Government funding changes have been revealed by a teachers’ trade union.

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) says that under the plans, schools in Bolton will be worse off by £16,634,060 by 2010/20.

The schools which the union says will lose out the most will be Kearsley Academy, which the NUT says will lose £860 per pupil, Essa Academy £825, Bolton St Catherine’s Academy £747, Little Lever High School £710 and Ladybridge High School £641.

The Bolton News reported earlier this month that the majority of secondary schools in Bolton will lose money under funding changes being proposed by the Government.

Now the NUT and other unions have created a School Cuts website to show how schools could be affected under the National Funding Formula.

It compares each school’s funding in 2015-16 with the funding the Government predicts it will receive in 2019-20 under its proposed new National Funding Formula (NFF), adjusted for the impact of inflation and cost increases imposed on schools.

The NUT Divisional Secretary for Bolton, Julia Simpkins said: “Under this Government’s funding policies, there are no winners, only losers.

“Bolton schools are being forced to make decisions that no head teacher should have to make including reducing school staff and teachers, increasing class sizes, and reducing the range of subjects offered simply to balance the book.

“This is an unacceptable state of affairs The NUT and ATL will continue campaigning for additional funding, to protect schools and our children’s education.”

That union says that the proposed formula “will simply redistribute existing money across the country, while the Government’s funding freeze and inflation and employer cost increases will cut the value of every school’s funding by almost 10 per cent”.

It estimates that this combination of a new funding formula and cost increases means that 98 per cent of schools will be worse off in 2019-20.

The department for education said that as the result of the proposed national funding formula due to be introduced from 2018 to 2019, more than 10,000 schools will gain funding and added that no school will face a reduction of more than more than 1.5 per cent per pupil per year or three per centre pupil overall.

A department for education spokesman said: “School funding is at its highest level on record and will be over £40 billion in 2016-17.

“We are protecting per-pupil funding so where pupil numbers rise, the amount of money schools receive will increase. We have also set out proposals to end the historic postcode lottery in school funding.”

He added that an extra £190 million would provide support to underperforming schools.