Councillors have called for Barnet Council to oppose funding cuts to education.

Barnet Labour group called for Barnet Council to lobby the government to ensure no school in the borough loses funding in the new formula at its children, education, libraries and safeguarding committee on November 15.

Parent and school governor, Lisa Pate, presented to the petition with more than 2,000 signatures to the committee along with Labour's motion, calling on the council to write to Chancellor Philip Hammond, but the motion was refused.

Ms Pate said: "The Barnet Conservatives should be appealing to the government to make sure no Barnet school loses money under the new national funding formula.

"The loss in real terms is much higher, because of higher inflation, cuts from building and repairs, and because the Government is not passing on money to pay for the 1% teachers’ pay rise."

According to information from a consultation managed by Capita, provided by the Labour group, 100 schools will see a deduction in their funding in 2017-18, and the group says Barnet Council has told school governors of these cuts.

However a spokesperson from the Department of Education disputes this, saying every school in Barnet will gain under the new funding formula.

Labour councillor Pauline Coakley Webb said: "It's shameful that the Barnet Tories will not put political pressure on the government against these school funding cuts by writing to them formally.

"Some of our schools are already struggling financially and are having to ask parents for money."

The Department of Education spokesman said union figures are "misleading" and that every school in Barnet will gain funding in the new formula.

The spokesman said: "As the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies has confirmed, overall schools funding is being protected at a national level in real terms per pupil over the next two years.

"At the same time, our historic improvement of the school funding system – backed by an additional £1.3bn of extra funding – will replace the current post-code lottery which saw huge differences in funding between similar schools in different parts of the country.

"Our new formula will allocate a cash increase of at least 1% per pupil to every school by 2019-20. In fact, schools across Barnet will see a funding increase of over £1.9million through our formula."

The spokesman added the government will be spending £2.6 billion more on schools by 2019-20 than they at the moment.