Board members do not agree with list of education cuts

EDUCATION has presented a list of potential savings to the Policy Council that board members do not agree with, its deputy minister has revealed.

It needs to cut £7.6m., or 8%, of its budget, by 2014 as part of the Financial Transformation Programme.

The department's minister has also signalled that it may ask for savings that will be made beyond the 2014 deadline to be taken into account because of timing issues.

Talks are continuing with Treasury and Resources about that.

Deputy minister Andrew Le Lievre, pictured, was commenting on a debate about clearer lines of accountability in the FTP yesterday when he described his department as 'the next train into the station, which had lost its driver and was heading swiftly towards the buffers'.