Sentences with phrase «new school places»

According to the report, the cost of creating new school places means the capital faces a # 1.5 bn funding shortfall over the next five years.

The company was given a # 2 billion budget to help with the government's commitment to new school places by securing sites for an additional 110 free schools.

Free schools have created thousands of good new school places since 2011.

This session will look at pupil projections, school place shortages and how free schools are helping to provide new school places across the country.

And supporters argue free schools offer choice and quality, as well as new school places, and drive up standards in other schools as a result.

Free schools have opened where new school places are not needed, in many cases having a detrimental impact on existing schools.

We have announced # 2.4 billion of capital funding allocations to create new school places across the country, and to maintain and improve the condition of school buildings.

The firm will acquire land and buildings across the country to assist the government in building the schools by 2020, and 600,000 new school places by 2021.

«Do the Maths 2015» says the government is not providing enough cash for new school places needed in the capital.

Desperately needed new school places are only now at the planning permission stage.

They note that while free schools are helping to meet the need for new school places in some areas, they are creating spare capacity in others, in some cases 20 % over what is needed.

A Department for Education spokesman said: «We are giving local authorities # 5bn to spend on new school places over this Parliament - double the amount allocated by the previous government over an equivalent period.

The Department for Education says it is giving schools # 5bn to spend on new school places over this Parliament, which it says is double the amount allocated by the previous government over an equivalent period.

The government's scorecards also allow users to rate the quality of new school places created between 2014 - 15 and 2015 - 16, based on Ofsted inspection outcomes and Progress 8 scores.

«The significant factor in the current situation is that, since 2010, the government has undermined local authorities» legal powers to deliver new school places.

Future challenges Hertfordshire County Council's essential role in commissioning new school places will face growing challenges, especially in the context of increased housing allocations.

Crucially 18,000 new school places meant that the phased term times of the year - long calendar could be abolished.

Measures to achieve new school places might include maximising buildings or land to increase the quantum of floor space and numbers of classrooms by way of redevelopment, acquiring sites for new school premises, and / or releasing existing sites or part of sites that are no longer required, or buildings that are no longer fit for purpose.

«Overall the NAO acknowledges that free schools are providing good value for money, creating new school places at a significantly lower cost per place than under previous programmes.»

She said: «Everybody's number one priority must now be to make sure that the children are found new school places so they can get on with the quality education they deserve.»

«The challenge for councils is making sure places are delivered on time and in the right places, in a context where some of the decision making about new school places is now in the hands of the government.»

School capital investment (including new school places, school maintenance, land and playing fields)

«The Tories» free market approach to providing new school places just isn't working.

Toby Young says free schools are the «most cost effective» way of supplying new school places.

Schools system minister, Lord Nash, said in a statement: «Free schools are providing many good new school places in response to the needs of communities across the country.

Commenting on plans for local authorities to decide where new schools should open, Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «This is a clear admission that the free school policy has not effectively addressed local need for new places and concedes the vital role of the local authority in funding for new school places and the right of the local authority to select the provider.

LocatED was established last year with a # 2 billion warchest to help see through the government's commitment to new school places by securing sites to deliver the additional 110 free schools that were announced in the March budget.

The government said it had doubled funding for school places to # 5bn during the last parliament, creating half a million new school places since May 2010, with a further # 7bn committed to create more places over the next six years.

«There are now more than 400 free schools either opened or been approved to open across England and once full they will provide 230,000 much needed new school places.

The Local Government Association has revealed that England will be in need of nearly 900,000 new school places over the next decade.

«We're spending # 5 billion on new school places — twice what Labour spent in the previous four years,» he told BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show.

But Natalie Evans, director of New Schools Network, said: «Over 90 % of primary free schools opened or approved to open are in areas where new school places are needed.

The system for creating new school places in England is fragmented and confusing, risking harm to children's education, head teachers have warned.

London Councils, which runs the admissions scheme, is urging the government to allocate sufficient funding to local authorities to fully meet the cost of providing new school places in the capital.

The system for creating new school places in England is fragmented, risking harm to children's education, head teachers have warned.

The government has today (Thursday, February 12) announced # 1.6 billion of capital funding to support the creation of new school places needed by 2018.

It is nothing short of lunacy to slash the amount of money available for new school places to lavish on free schools.»

«Additional funding for new school places and for refurbishing schools is welcome.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, comments on the report by the Local Government Association warning of a # 1 billion shortfall in funding for new school places,

In place of Labour's hopeless acceptance of mediocrity in education, which has seen Britain tumble down the world league tables just when we need our children to be doing better than those in other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over new school places.

Commenting on the report by the Local Government Association warning of a # 1 billion shortfall in funding for new school places, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «Once again we see the stark reality of the Coalition Government's savage cuts to local authority funding.

A Department for Eduation spokesman said: «We have made an additional # 5 billion of funding available in this Parliament alone to councils to create new school places - double the amount spent by the previous government over the same period.

While the schools are proving popular with parents, teaching unions say too many are earmarked for areas where there is no need for new school places.

To achieve the target of 500 new school places, two waves of new free schools will be announced every year, with these 18 classed as the first wave.

However, despite the Department for Education (DfE) investing «billions of pounds creating new schools and new school places», the growing population and increase in pupil numbers has left tougher competition for the most sought after secondary schools.

It has been estimated that more than 250,000 new school places will have to be created nationally by 2014/15 which will have a huge impact on education facilities across the country.

There are conditions which local authorities must meet when they are putting forward a proposal for a new school, most importantly they must demonstrate they have a site and funding available (for any capital works) and that there is a demand for the new school places.

This new company, LocatED, has been created to acquire land and buildings across the country to help the government with its plans to build 500 new free schools by 2020, and create 600,000 new school places by 2021.

«We need to secure hundreds of new free schools in order to keep pace in creating 600,000 new school places by 2021.