EDUCATION union NAHT’s members demanded that millions in extra education funding for Wales be given directly to schools at its weekend conference in Belfast.

The school leaders union’s annual conference urged that £555 million in consequential funding over the next three years, driven by increased special education needs and disabilities (Send) spending, should go to Welsh schools.

NAHT Cymru national secretary Laura Doel said: “We are calling for the next Welsh government to make a clear and public commitment setting out how much education consequential funding will be allocated to education.

“There remains no clarity on how much of this funding will be directed to education, or whether any of it will reach schools to support additional learning needs provision.”

Consequential funding from public spending rises in England from the Barnett Formula goes to the Welsh government, which decides how and where it is spent.

Teaching unions in Wales have been campaigning for education to get what they claim is its fair share to reverse the underfunding of schools.