* * * News for 27th March 2003 * * *
All of Medway: 27th March 2003
Boost for Education
Education Portfolio Holder secures additional funding for Education in Medway.
As a direct result of extensive lobbying by Medway Council‘s Conservative Cabinet member for Education, Cllr Patricia Wozencroft, a further £1·3 million is now being provided for Medway's education budget. Although there has been some lobbying by others, the single key ingredient in securing this extra funding was the unstinting effort of Cllr Wozencroft over the past more than two months.
The Conservative administration of the Council had already put a sum of £4·5 million into Medway schools to largely offset the £7·1 million underfunding from central government, and this latest boost will halve the remaining deficit. Our schools can live with that.