Teacher redundancies would follow proposed NI education budget cuts

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 3 Nov, 16:41 · Archive

Northern Ireland's education minister says proposed budget allocations would require mass teacher redundancies.

Education Minister Paul Givan told the Northern Ireland Assembly that proposed budget allocations for his department would have required mass compulsory teacher redundancies. The savings the department would have needed to find were £600 million in the current financial year, rising to £900 million by 2028/29, he said.

Givan described these savings as 'simply not achievable' and said living within the proposed allocations without mass redundancies was not a 'reasonable prospect'. He told MLAs that approximately 82 per cent of the education budget is spent on staffing costs.

The minister said education 'remains significantly and persistently underfunded' and faces unavoidable cost pressures and rising service demands. He stated that funding 'has consistently failed to keep pace' with these pressures. A Stormont budget has not yet been agreed for the financial year, with ministers saying they have not been adequately resourced by the UK Government.

How it is being reported

• Proposed budget allocations ‘would have required mass teacher redundancies’Education Minister Paul Givan said the savings his department would have had to find would have been “unachievable”.Belfast Live · 3 Nov, 16:00
• Proposed budget allocations ‘would have required mass teacher redundancies’Belfast Telegraph · 3 Nov, 15:27

In this story: Paul Givan · Northern Ireland · Stormont

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