With this urgent requirement for
additional school places fast, the modular building industry has risen to the challenge, to provide excellent quality learning environments that can be constructed to tight deadlines.
With this urgent requirement
for additional school places, and the continued change in standards and regulation, the modular building industry has risen to the challenge.
He congratulated Michael Gove's pledge of # 8million for
additional school places in Croydon, but asked whether «there will be further such tranches of money in future» due to an increase of 10 % in the number of children in reception classes.
«Schools are brilliant at making the best use of resources available to them, and the government is allocating capital funding to support the creation
of additional school places.
Many local authorities are just as happy now to provide capital grant to schools and academies to
deliver additional school places and the EFA is currently trialling local delivery of the Priority School Building Programme (which they had previously delivered centrally) with funding allocated to local authorities, dioceses and larger multi-academy trusts.
«It is wonderful to see Great Ouse Primary Academy open, as it will provide families to the west of Bedford with another option for their child's education, as well as creating some of the
many additional school places our thriving town needs.
Opening in 2017, this school will build on the continuing success of JDPS and will
provide additional school places for almost 500 children, including a 60 place nursery.
How will the government accommodate the estimated 300,000
additional school places if the MAT's do not absorb and expand to meet the need?
The government has committed to opening 500 more free schools in this parliament, equating to 270,000
additional school places in communities across the country.
The announcement follows new government figures which show that almost 735,000
additional school places have been created since 2010.
Lord Nash said that «the idea of schools only being on one or two floors is not essential» and that given the current need for
additional school places «we are going to have to see schools going up».
Schools across England are set to benefit from a # 2.4 bn investment to help create more than half a million
additional school places.
The use of modular construction radically reduces both disruption to teaching and time on - site, both which are essential factors when schools have an urgent requirement for
additional school places.
The use of modular construction radically reduces both disruption to teaching and time on - site, both which are essential factors when schools have an urgent need for additional school places
ATL's general secretary, Dr Bousted, believes that the creation of LocatED is a result of the government «finally» recognising that the expansion of the free schools programme has «got out of hand and well over budget», and that the firm would not have been needed had the government «allowed local authorities to have the control over the planning for
the additional school places they need».
The # 980 million for councils to create additional places in 2019 - 20 is part of # 7 billion allocated over the course of this parliament and is supposed to help the government reach its target of creating 600,000
additional school places 2021.
It comes as new government figures show that almost 735,000
additional school places have been created since 2010 - with 92 % of new primary places and 89 % of new secondary places created in schools rated as «good» or «outstanding» by Ofsted in 2015 to 2016.
«The Government has finally recognised that the expansion of the free schools programme has got out of hand and well over budget, but LocatED would not have been needed if the Government had allowed local authorities to have the control over the planning for
the additional school places that they need.