TORY education cuts are forcing school headteachers to choose between repairing leaking roofs or providing help to vulnerable children, a survey revealed today.

A survey of headteachers in Calderdale, Yorkshire, confirmed, at local level, the nationwide funding crisis in England’s primary schools.

The survey, published as kids went back to school following the half-term break, was carried out by campaign group Calderdale Against School Cuts (CASC) with a response from 90 per cent of heads in the district’s 84 primary schools.