‘A disgrace’: headteachers attack Hunt’s failure to provide money for schools in autumn statement

Jeremy Hunt’s silence on schools funding in the autumn statement has enraged education unions. Photograph: Tejas Sandhu/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

Headteachers have called the government’s failure to invest in school staff and crumbling buildings in the autumn statement “an absolute disgrace”.

Unions said this weekend that the government had now lost any vestiges of credibility among teachers after the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, failed to announce any new investment for schools on Wednesday – despite Rishi Sunak’s pledge at last month’s Conservative party conference that education would be his “main funding priority”.