Energy cap does not go far enough for schools, UK head teachers warn

School leaders say government's six-month price cap does not remove funding uncertainty

Head teachers have welcomed the government's intervention on spiralling energy costs but have warned it does not go far enough, as schools struggle with rising costs across the board.

School leaders have been raising the alarm in increasingly apocalyptic terms over huge hikes in energy bills, which threatened to blow carefully managed budgets and trigger financial meltdown in the sector.