ASCL comment on closure of the ESFA

Commenting on Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson's announcement of the closure of the Education and Skills Funding Agency on 31 March 2025, Pepe Di'Iasio, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said:

“If this reorganisation produces a more efficient and joined-up approach to the oversight of school and college funding that is obviously something we welcome. However, shifting the deckchairs will not solve the overriding problem that the current level of school and college funding is totally inadequate. This is the issue that we most need the government to address at the forthcoming autumn budget.”