New strategy for Northern Powerhouse schools

The government will invest £20 million a year of new funding in a Northern Powerhouse Schools Strategy.

The Chancellor made the announcement during the budget.

The government say they will:

• Boost investment to turn round performance in the toughest areas:
• Bring in support from the best leaders and schools into these areas, empowering the best local heads and schools to become leaders of school improvement and increasing funding available for turnaround activities
• Invest more funding to see the best academy chains expand and to develop new sponsors in the North
• Create a new Northern centre of the New Schools Network
• Look at further ways to get and retain the best teachers
• Ask Sir Nick Weller to lead an in-depth report into transforming education across the Northern Powerhouse