Staff not being replaced, parents being asked for cash and even Gove’s curricular changes having an impact: heads detail funding pressures on their schools

Heads marching in Parliament Square, central London, this morning

To the tourists milling around Parliament Square and the Houses of Parliament on a glorious autumn morning, it may have made for an incongruous sight.

What the group of primary school children, decked out in luminous orange jackets and heading towards Westminster Abbey, made of it - or were told about it, by their teachers - was anyone’s guess.

But the hundreds of neatly-dressed headteachers, gathered in the square with banners and the occasional whistle for a march to Downing Street, seemed to have succeeded in making further inroads into the national consciousness, in raising concerns about the funding of their schools.

Education Uncovered, freed from its normal office habitat of scrutinising documents, data and company accounts, travelled to Westminster this morning to have a word with some of the heads.