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Counting the cost: the financial implications for English primary schools of implementing and sustaining the initiatives associated with the Primary National Strategy Bob Curtis School of Education The University of Nottingham Correspondence: ttxrec@nottingham.ac.uk or bob.curtis@ Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association New Researchers/Student Conference, University of Warwick, 6 September 2006 Abstract In Excellence and Enjoyment, the introduction to the Primary National Strategy (DfES, 2003), a number of initiatives were introduced to encourage all schools to ‘buil