Schools Pocket Up to £700,000 Each to Teach Pupils Who Don’t Speak English as Bill Hits £572 Million
Schools are cashing in up to £700,000 each to teach kids who don’t speak English. The Mailhas the story.
Two schools – one in Manchester and another in Northampton – this year collected at least £500,000 towards paying translators, bilingual teaching assistants and support materials, according to Department for Education figures. …
Nationally, schools received a record £539 million this year to cater for pupils who have English “as an additional language” (EAL).
Critics have voiced anger over the rising cost to taxpayers, fuelled by immigration having spiralled to all-time highs.
Separate DfE statistics show English is now no longer the mother tongue for most pupils in parts of the country. For example, two-thirds of children in Newham, East London, speak another primary language. …
DfE bosses define the EAL as where pupils have “been exposed to a language other than English during early development and continues to be exposed to this language in the home or in the community”. …
Nationwide, English isn’t the first language of 1.8 million pupils, or one in five, according to the 2024/25 school census. This has risen from 1.2 million a decade ago.
Schools get extra cash for EAL pupils in the national funding formula, which supports them with the higher costs associated with educating those pupils. Local authorities then distribute the funds within their boundaries. …
Nationwide, schools took an average of £27,418, or around £320 per pupil who does not speak English as a first language. …
Most of the expenditure goes towards teachers who specialise in teaching English to foreign children, bilingual assistants and even interpreters for parents’ evenings.
Job ads online ask for translators fluent in languages including Romanian, Arabic and Polish. …
The findings come after the Daily Mail last year showed English is not the first language for the majority of pupils at more than 2,000 schools across the country.
The investigation raised concerns among critics that the slew of different languages being spoken can be incredibly disruptive for learning and integration.
Teachers have previously said schools were under mounting pressure from mass immigration and called on ministers to fund them properly to cope with the array of different languages that pupils speak.
EAL provision features in Ofsted’s new ranking system.
Are we seeing the alleged ”strength” from all of this ”diversity” yet because all I’m seeing is weakness from the ongoing strain it puts on resources, resulting in a fragmentation and continued disintegration of society. Cohesion and trust are but a distant memory in many parts of European countries nowadays.
Same story in Ireland, in this mini clip. How can you have 40 different nationalities represented in a school of 170 boys? That’s crazy;
”Over 40 different nationalities represented in one Irish school in rural County Kerry. If you want to understand how diverse Ireland has become, well, teachers are asking for English language support because their students no longer speak English at home.”
I’m inclined to think that the parents should stump up for it if they want their kids educated. If that means their kids end up going to madrassas instead then so what? See how employable they are with A level Arabic and Koran studies.
This surely doesn’t bode well for Ireland, either; ”The Government is accelerating plans to introduce legislation which will allow the construction of seven super-size asylum accommodation centres which will be immune to public planning objections. The intention is laid out in Department of Justice documents seen by the Irish Mail on Sunday and is further proof that Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan views illegal immigration as one of the biggest challenges facing the country, according to senior Government sources. The legislation will block the public from opposing asylum centres at the Thornton Hall site in north Dublin and up to six other sites around the country. Under current planning laws, local communities can lodge objections against new International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) centres that are being built to replace the State policy of requisitioning hotels. However a Department of Justice plan to introduce legislation to permanently override the rights of residents to object to large asylum centres is being pursued under an ‘accelerated time-frame’ according to documents seen by the Mail. Planning laws over temporary accommodation for asylum centres can be overridden by the Government at the moment but only on a limited scale in a temporary emergency law. However, the… Read more »
Everyone knows the ‘diversity is our strength’ mantra is a load of ‘ol nonsense so now they have switched to ‘they are here now so let’s support them to integrate and it isn’t fair to send them back’.
soundofreason
7 days ago
It would be good if they taught English. The history, the morals, the culture as well as the language.
soundofreason
7 days ago
That DfE chart subtitle: ‘Total funding allocated to schools due to English as an additional language’.
Additional? It’s the language they need to get anywhere in England and most of the rest of the UK – literally as well as figuratively.
Pete Sutton
7 days ago
Well, at least it looks llke the number of British people who can speak a foreign language is increasing. But us monolingual wazungu just won’t know what the bûggers are saying about us.
Go to Italy and there are no such “services”, children pick new languages up quickly by being imersed in it. If Parents want their child or indeed themselves to learn a new language with help then they should pay for it.
RTSC
6 days ago
English is the language of the world. Everyone with a semi-decent education from pretty-much anywhere in the world can speak English.
This just proves that we have been flooded by uneducated, welfare-dependent, low-skilled 3rd world migrants.
The UK has been turned into the World’s Welfare State by our treacherous Establishment.
sharon
6 days ago
When I used to work with EAL, the only language I knew was school French….
But, the children had some English and were keen to learn. Playing with, and inter-acting with the other children, they soaked up English like a sponge!
What seems to have changed is the attitude of the parents! Perhaps the school’s expectations are less than helpful, by pandering?!
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English only in state funded schools.
End of.
The Welsh have a bit of a thing about that.
Wales gets additional funding relative to England, they should feel lucky about that.
Are we seeing the alleged ”strength” from all of this ”diversity” yet because all I’m seeing is weakness from the ongoing strain it puts on resources, resulting in a fragmentation and continued disintegration of society. Cohesion and trust are but a distant memory in many parts of European countries nowadays.
Same story in Ireland, in this mini clip. How can you have 40 different nationalities represented in a school of 170 boys? That’s crazy;
”Over 40 different nationalities represented in one Irish school in rural County Kerry. If you want to understand how diverse Ireland has become, well, teachers are asking for English language support because their students no longer speak English at home.”
https://x.com/MickOKeeffe/status/2040727873091178733
I’m inclined to think that the parents should stump up for it if they want their kids educated. If that means their kids end up going to madrassas instead then so what? See how employable they are with A level Arabic and Koran studies.
This surely doesn’t bode well for Ireland, either; ”The Government is accelerating plans to introduce legislation which will allow the construction of seven super-size asylum accommodation centres which will be immune to public planning objections. The intention is laid out in Department of Justice documents seen by the Irish Mail on Sunday and is further proof that Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan views illegal immigration as one of the biggest challenges facing the country, according to senior Government sources. The legislation will block the public from opposing asylum centres at the Thornton Hall site in north Dublin and up to six other sites around the country. Under current planning laws, local communities can lodge objections against new International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) centres that are being built to replace the State policy of requisitioning hotels. However a Department of Justice plan to introduce legislation to permanently override the rights of residents to object to large asylum centres is being pursued under an ‘accelerated time-frame’ according to documents seen by the Mail. Planning laws over temporary accommodation for asylum centres can be overridden by the Government at the moment but only on a limited scale in a temporary emergency law. However, the… Read more »
I thought that Sinn Fein means Ourselves, Alone. Odd that the government wants to give all these foreigners help to mess that up.
Everyone knows the ‘diversity is our strength’ mantra is a load of ‘ol nonsense so now they have switched to ‘they are here now so let’s support them to integrate and it isn’t fair to send them back’.
It would be good if they taught English. The history, the morals, the culture as well as the language.
That DfE chart subtitle: ‘Total funding allocated to schools due to English as an additional language’.
Additional? It’s the language they need to get anywhere in England and most of the rest of the UK – literally as well as figuratively.
Well, at least it looks llke the number of British people who can speak a foreign language is increasing. But us monolingual wazungu just won’t know what the bûggers are saying about us.
And I suspect that we won’t care either.
I’m semi-bilingual and proud of it.
Go to Italy and there are no such “services”, children pick new languages up quickly by being imersed in it. If Parents want their child or indeed themselves to learn a new language with help then they should pay for it.
English is the language of the world. Everyone with a semi-decent education from pretty-much anywhere in the world can speak English.
This just proves that we have been flooded by uneducated, welfare-dependent, low-skilled 3rd world migrants.
The UK has been turned into the World’s Welfare State by our treacherous Establishment.
When I used to work with EAL, the only language I knew was school French….
But, the children had some English and were keen to learn. Playing with, and inter-acting with the other children, they soaked up English like a sponge!
What seems to have changed is the attitude of the parents! Perhaps the school’s expectations are less than helpful, by pandering?!