Planned cuts to every school in England and Wales – with figures detailing the amount per pupil – will be available on a revamped version of the union-run school cuts website launched this week. At present the website only gives retrospective data, for the financial year 2021-22. But hoping to persuade parents to press their MPs on the issue before the next general election, the National Education Union (NEU), backed by the National Union of Head Teachers (NAHT) and the Association of School and College Heads ( ASCL), a new site will be launched that will display data for the next year. Unions will also publish social media posts showing the level of cuts planned for schools in the constituencies represented by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and Education Secretary Gillian Keegan. In the Sunnock constituency of Richmond, North Yorkshire, unions say four schools will lose more than £100,000 a year from April 2023, with 40 seeing cuts of more than £100 per pupil. Around 75% of schools in the constituency are facing some cuts. Unions say the calculations are based on official but not readily available government figures on school funding since the last comprehensive spending review. They have also taken into account inflation forecasts from the Bank of England and conservative estimates for increases in school costs, such as a 2% rise in teacher pay and higher energy bills. Unions say the figures have been independently verified by leading economists, who conclude they are credible. If funding changes are made that affect school budgets in Hunt’s Nov. 17 financial statement, the data will be adjusted immediately. The unions’ latest initiative comes after Hunt made it clear that all departments, including education, are expected to make cuts as part of the government’s debt reduction plan. On Saturday Sunak told The Times that he needed to be honest with people about the economic challenges ahead, particularly the need to reduce borrowing and inflation. He said: “It’s not leadership to pretend there’s some easy, short-term fix … I’d rather be honest with people about what it’s going to take to get us to where we need to be.” As recently reported by the Observer, nine out of 10 schools in England expect to run out of money by the next school year as the huge weight of rising energy bills and wages takes its toll. The NAHT says 50% of head teachers believe their school will be in deficit this year, with almost all expecting to be in the red by next September when their stocks run out. Many principals working in substandard and even dangerous school buildings also fear that promises of funding to rebuild and renovate could fall prey to cuts in school capital projects. The Ministry of Education’s report on the state of schools and their buildings is overdue. Emails leaked to the Observer earlier this year showed the perilous condition of many schools was one of the biggest concerns within the department – and that officials were pushing for more money from the Treasury to fund the rebuild. DfE staff have called on the Treasury to urgently commit extra billions to increase the number of school rebuilding projects from 50 a year to more than 300. James Bowen, head of policy at NAHT, said: “The Government needs to step up its school rebuilding programme. At current plans to rebuild 50 schools a year, it will take more than 440 years to repair and replace all the schools. This is woefully inadequate. “There are now parts of the school estate that are in a dangerous state of repair. The Department for Education assessed the condition of almost all schools in England between 2017 and 2019. It is only right that there is now full disclosure of what was discovered. Parents and school staff deserve to be aware of the risk.” The DfE said it would issue a report on the state of school buildings by the end of the year. He added: “Since 2015, we have allocated more than £13 billion to improve the condition of school buildings and facilities, including £1.8 billion for the current financial year.”