WORCESTER’S MP is writing to the Education Secretary after county schools suffered a bitter fairer funding blow.

Robin Walker says he is going to contact Justine Greening after the long-awaited new funding deal was delayed 12 months in a shock setback.

Ms Greening, appointed to the top job by new Prime Minister Theresa May, released a statement yesterday saying the crucial funding shake-up will be put back until 2018/19.

Headteachers across Worcestershire have reacted furiously to the move, calling it “bonkers” and “ridiculous”.

Mr Walker worked closely with previous education secretary Nicky Morgan on the changes, serving as her Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) as the current White Paper was created.

The city MP, who is now in the Government himself as a Brexit minister, told the Worcester News he would still be keeping the pressure up.

“I’ll be writing to the new Secretary of State to impress upon her how vital fairer funding is,” he said today.

“I know from talking to schools and headteachers myself how urgent and crucial this is.”

Ms Greening said the delay is because fairer funding is “a once in a generation opportunity and we must get our approach right”.

For decades Worcestershire has languished among the worst-funded counties in Britain for school funding.

Mr Walker has made it his most pressing campaign in parliament alongside all five other county MPs.

The basic per-pupil funding is £4,231 compared to £5,218 in Birmingham, a startling £987 difference.

In 2015 the Government did come up with a fresh £350 million for the worst funded areas, with Worcestershire getting £6.7 million, and the promise of more later.

In November last year previous Chancellor George Osborne and Mrs Morgan then announced that a brand new funding formula would be launched in 2017 in an historic shift.

The NUT has hit out at the fresh wait, saying “schools are suffering the worst cuts since the 1970s”.