King’s Meadow Primary School

East Lothian Council’s You Pay Now Have Your Say consultation closed in December and everyone is now awaiting the budget due in February. In the meantime, schools have been dealt an additional blow – East Lothian Council have very recently decreed that money for the settlements from the Single Status reforms for school staff will now come from the school budget instead of from the council. This will affect some if not all schools, but for King’s Meadow it means finding approximately an extra £3000, previously unbudgeted for. One effect this will have on the school is that they will not be able to re-fill the current admin vacancy resulting in yet more work for our head teacher & management team.