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24
Nov 2020
King James's School spending £7,000 a week on covid
King James's School in Knaresborough is spending an extra £7,000 a week tackling covid, Parliament was told yesterday.
Covid has imposed additional costs on all schools, such as paying for supply teachers to cover teachers who are isolating.
But the scale of the problem at one local school was laid bare during a Commons education debate.
Andrew Jones, the Conservative MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough, asked if the government would take into account variable infection rates when planning education budgets for tomorrow's Spending Review.
Mr Jones said:
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Paul McIntosh, acting headteacher of King James's School, urged ministers to help. He told the Stray Ferret:
Gillian Keegan, the skills minister, told the Commons debate the government had provided £75,000 additional funding for "unavoidable costs that could not be met from their existing budgets".
She added:
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