Sentences with phrase «more school places»

74 % of open free schools are located in areas where there was a need for more school places and around half are in the 30 % most deprived communities in the country.

How can the free schools programme meet the twin challenge of creating more school places and improving educational standards?

The need for more school places in London has lately become more acute, and research by the Greater London Authority in February 2017 showed that an additional 60,000 primary places and 105,000 secondary places will be needed in the capital alone by 2020.

The council said it believed the most «sensible and cost - effective» option was to provide more school places by extending the existing All Saints Academy.

Labour's Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt said the report was «yet more evidence» that the free school programme was «diverting precious resources from areas in dire need of more school places, contributing to the primary places crisis this Tory - led government is overseeing».

A further 22 free schools have been will soon be open - creating 18,000 more school places across the country, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has announced.

Lib Dem sources claim 30,000 local authority places are being lost as money is diverted to new free schools, but aides to Mr Gove say more school places are being created overall.

In the very poorest of African countries, simply funding more school places for boys or girls may end up boosting equality as girls may stop having to compete with boys for the few available spaces.

Mr Gove's allies said the Basic Need Budget would still rise by more than # 200m a year in 2015 - 17 and argued that expansion of free schools would lead to more school places overall.

A Department for Education spokeswoman said local authorities would continue to create thousands more school places in coming years, with 600,000 additional pupil places created in the five years to May 2015.

A Department for Educations spokesperson said: «As the NAO acknowledges, we have made more school places available, and in the best schools.

The Department of Education said 25 free schools are located in the most deprived 25 per cent of communities in the country, while the other 33 are in area where there is a need for more school places.

A recent report by Policy Exchange argued that free schools have a potential role to play in increasing parental choice and driving up standards through competition, as well as creating more school places in areas of basic need.

Meanwhile, demographic changes mean the Department for Education will need to provide 420,000 more school places by 2021, researchers found.

The Department for Education says that 84 % of approved free schools are in «areas most in need of more school places» and that half will in the most deprived parts of the country.

If the need for more school places is identified, options for best meeting the need are considered by a multi ‑ disciplinary team of officers taking account of the number of places required, location, property and site feasibility, cost, environmental issues, school effectiveness and any town planning constraints.

More than nine out of 10 free schools have been approved in areas where there was already a need for more schools places, and the rest have been created by local communities that decided they wanted more choice for their children.

Growing population As the RIBA report points out, a booming UK population has meant that 250,000 more school places are needed now than in 2000, 90 per cent of them at primary level.

«We are not against free schools as long as they are in areas where there is a need for more school places and they represent value for money.

Since 2014, more than 80 % of mainstream free schools have been approved in areas where there was a need for more school places, while others are opened in response to parental demand to create competition and drive up standards where existing provision is not adequate.

«Mums and dads should know councils will do everything they can to create more school places and there are great examples of the work being done across the country.

More than 9 in 10 free schools have been approved in areas where a need for more school places has already been identified, and the remainder have been created by local communities deciding they wanted more choice.

76 % of open mainstream free schools up to September 2016 are located in areas where there was a need for more school places, and almost half are in the 30 % most deprived communities in the country.

Millions invested to create more school places and improve facilities for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).