The Local Government Association (LGA) are stating that the government need to find a new way of funding and are worried that the sugar tax is being used to cover funding shortages.
In February this year, ministers announced that £415m would be put into schools, as part of healthy-pupils capital programme to help pay for facilities such as:
Sport
After school
Activities
Healthy eating.
This is to be paid for by a levy on soft drinks with the most added sugar, introduced from April 2018.
It is understood that the government now expects to receive less money than previously expected from the sugar tax and the Treasury will build up the fund to the original expectation of about £1bn and part of the money will now go towards general school funding.
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