What plans are there to continue funding to support primary languages?
In relation to this year’s funding, which has been allocated to support primary languages until March 2011, the relevant guidance was contained in the Standards Fund letter which read as follows – ‘To continue building on the good progress already made and to support the primary workforce, funding is once again being allocated to support primary language learning provision across authorities and schools during 2010-11. It is expected that a very significant proportion of the total allocation for primary languages will be devolved directly to schools. As a general rule…. we expect to see at least two-thirds of an authority’s allocation devolved to schools. It will be for individual authorities, in consultation with schools, to decide how best to devolve this funding to ensure the building of capacity across the local area. Schools can determine what they spend this money on, but it could be used to pay for in-service training for teachers and teaching assistants, purchase teaching resou
