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DAPH & DASH Briefings 2020 – dates for Spring / Summer events
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15 & 16 October 2020 at Saunton Sands Hotel, North Devon

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GDPR

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DCC has produced a General Data Protection Regulation Guide for Schools, which outlines the impacts of the new legislation and provides guidance and support on how to achieve compliance.

Fair Funding  |  Challenges in Devon Schools

POSTPONED – Worth Less? Campaign and Downing Street march on 27 September 2019 – READ MORE

MP meetings with Devon school leaders  |  Summer Term 2019
DAPH and DASH in partnership with DCC wrote to all Devon MPs requesting a date to meet with headteachers from schools within their constituency. This provided the opportunity to discuss the inequity of funding within Devon schools and to give case studies directly to the local MP.

Meetings took place across the county on the following dates:

21 June:  Sarah Wollaston MP (Totnes)
28 June: Neil Parish MP (Tiverton & Honiton)
28 June: Gary Streeter MP (South West Devon)
5 July: Ben Bradshaw MP (Exeter)
11 July: Anne Marie Morris MP (Newton Abbot)
12 July: Peter Heaton-Jones (North Devon)
13 September: Mel Stride MP (Central Devon)

Mass Joint Letter to Parents / Carers  |  8 March 2019

With media coverage confirmed by BBC, The Guardian, The Independent, TES and SchoolsWeek  |  read the L E T T E R

Parliamentary Petition re School Funding  |  House of Commons Debate on 4 March 2019     R E M I N D E R  –  sign the P E T I T I O N

Schools are having to make difficult choices on how to spend their limited funding as their income has not kept pace with the rise in costs since 2010. All schools are working very hard to “make ends meet” but this is becoming increasingly difficult and verging on almost impossible.

Worth Less?’ Press Release January 2019
Headteacher Survey – The State of our Schools post the National Funding Formula 2019  |  READ MORE

ARCHIVE – read more about the Fair Funding Campaign

f40 represents a group of the lowest funded education authorities in England where government-set cash allocations for primary and secondary pupils are the lowest in the country  |  READ MORE