Wales gets its Barnett boost as O’Dowd’s decision on common funding formula is ‘reversed’…
So, here’s John O’Dowd trying to explain why the money he threatened to take away from schools will no longer be taken away. He explains that he knew all along that he had an extra set of contingency cash of up to £15.8 million to fill the hole his proposals make. There were 15,000 responses to the proposed changes. Afterwards Sheila Davidson called it political playacting: The fact remains that an awful lot of school resources went into responding. It seems to …