Brodetsky looking to cut costs

"This isn't political. We are in difficult times and things have to be reined in a bit.

"But it will result in difficult decisions for schools to save money. We are reviewing every contract we've got to make the best environment for the children."

Mr Dunford added that the school's core budget of £950,000 was likely to be reduced by £11,000 next year. In addition, the government had sliced £32,000 from a building maintenance grant.

Educational services like teacher training, previously provided free by the council, would now be charged for.

"If we choose to buy in those services our school would lose tens of thousands of pounds. If we can find a good value provider locally within the community we will always try to use them instead," he explained.

Leeds City Council would comment only on the Leeds Learning Net element, accepting that the service "was possibly seen as expensive by some schools. As a way of dealing with this, Leeds City Council undertook a consultation exercise with all schools to help review and shape the LLN to ensure the services offered were based on school priorities at best value prices."