Sentences with phrase «primary school place»

For more information about applying for a primary school place for a child with an EHCP please see the relevant section of the Lambeth SEND Local Offer website or contact the Special Education Needs and Disabilities Team on 020 7926 9460.

London Councils said 800 children still had no primary school place by the end of July, but it did not to have a more recent figure.

A south London council has warned it can not guarantee a primary school place for every child in the borough by 2015.

The furore over a looming primary school place crisis has intensified during the election campaign, with Labour accusing the Conservatives of causing a crisis in primary school places because of the high costs of their free schools policy.

- and not wasting money fragmenting the NHS, and other services, or on vanity schools projects, but focusing on the real needs in adult social care and primary school places - and bringing public services together to save money and improve services.

- With primary school places in short supply in many parts of the country, and parents struggling to get their children into a local school, can it really be a priority to open more free schools in 2015 and 2016 in areas with excess secondary school places?

The savings, we're told, are «equivalent to almost # 600 for each working household across Britain, enough to fund three million primary school places or the building of 500 new secondary schools.»

Akaal Primary School has no specific catchment area and meets the need for more primary school places for areas including Normanton, Pear Tree, Heatherton and Chellaston.

And «half of districts with a high or severe forecast need for extra school places» have no application for primary school places.

We used that decision - making power to deliver on promises we had made to the electors: rapid demographic change had led to a shortage of local primary school places, so in the last four years we used the Council's resources to expand local primary schools to create twice as many; concerns about a scruffy and run down high street were addressed by comprehensive neighbourhood renewal; and pressure on household budgets was relieved by freezing the council tax and the cost of resident's parking permits.

And we've seen incredible sums ploughed into pet projects - more than # 100 million spent on installing elected police commissioners — money that could have paid for 3,000 new police constables - # 600 million added to the free schools budget in November — money that could pay for the extra 100,000 primary school places we so desperately need - and # 1.8 billion set aside for the costs of NHS reorganisation — half of which would keep 6,000 nurses in post for three years

It would also mean # 7.6 bn of cuts to education, equivalent to 395,000 teachers, 393 new schools, or 2.8 million primary school places.

What is more, the majority of these institutions are in the secondary phase, creating serious surplus capacity when there is a crying need for more primary school places.

The new international development secretary was a key figure in the leave campaign, criticising the government's record on immigration and warning that there was unsustainable pressure on primary school places.

An additional 336,000 primary school places will be needed by 2024.

Councillor Henry Vann said, «The programme of works delivered by Scape and Willmott Dixon includes a mixture of bespoke primary schools which adopt a standardised approach, along with Connect classroom extensions and Sunesis schools to meet the growing demand for primary school places in the area.»

Nick Blackburn, chief executive of Heathfield Academy Trust, said: «Catterick is an area of local need and North Yorkshire County Council has indicated that there is expected to be a shortfall of 730 primary school places in the area.

County Councillor Arthur Barker said: «A housing development in Catterick Garrison, Richmondshire will, we anticipate, create the need for significant additional primary school places after 2018.

«In March it was decided that the additional primary school places to serve the developments should be provided in the form of a new Primary Academy from September 2018 and, as a result, work should commence to secure an academy sponsor.

It claims councils have so far created an extra 300,000 primary school places but will face a new challenge as pupils reach secondary level.

With the UK experiencing the largest increase in demand for primary school places since the 1950s, it is estimated that in the next two years, 250,000 new places will be needed in primary schools — 37 per cent in London alone.

Primary school places have been announced today (16 April) and government figures show that 97.2 per cent of pupils were offered one of their top three primary schools.

Two in five council areas in England will not have enough primary school places for the number of children by September 2016, say council leaders.

She said: «I've been through the process of applying for primary school places for my own children and I know the anguish that parents go through when there just are not enough primary school places, so for us it's just a wonderful way to meet a community need».

UKIP's education spokesman Paul Nuttall said the only truth in Tristram Hunt's speech was about the «shameful shortage of primary school places».

The council has received # 40m from the government since 2006, for primary school places, and another # 12m for 2011/12.

They're being dubbed «super-primaries», schools with more than 1,000 pupils, and there are growing numbers of them in England as councils try to tackle the lack of primary school places.

Ed Miliband was asking about education policy, and claims of larger class sizes and he said there would be a lack of primary school places.

The London boroughs are the main beneficiaries of # 600m additional funding for primary school places.

Labour says that there is a primary school places «crisis» looming this September in England, following its own research.

A rise in the number of pupils and a shortage of primary school places has led some councils to consider turning empty shops and playing fields into classrooms.

She said: «Labour cut over 200,000 primary school places — and even ignored official warnings to provide extra school places after a baby boom.

One in four councils believe there is a «real crisis in primary school places» looming for this September in England, according to Labour's shadow education secretary.

Across England, more than 450,000 extra primary school places will be needed by 2015, partly as a result of a baby boom.

There are also concerns about a shortage of primary school places in the next few years in some areas, with London predicting a shortfall of about 70,000 over the next four years.

«Instead of focusing on the need for more primary school places, David Cameron's government has spent # 241m on free schools in areas that already have enough school places,» said shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt.

The quantity of teachers would also need to be increased, with an extra 1.6 million needed to provide enough primary school places.

Nominally, it's about whether Education Secretary Michael Gove has «raided» the basic needs budget for primary school places to prop up funding for free schools.

But when you ask if there is now more pressure on primary school places, well that question goes quietly unanswered.

«It is extraordinary that at a time when the shortage of primary school places amounts to nothing short of a national crisis that the government is persisting with the folly of its free school policy,» she said.

There is pressure on councils in England to find extra primary school places.

Earlier this year, Sutton Council in London called on the government to lift the limit on infant class sizes, saying this would help deal with the shortage of primary school places.

«We've been telling the government the need to give London the funding that's needed to provide the primary school places the parents want to see,» Mr Reed said.

Labour's Tristram Hunt said they had «left primary school places in crisis».

But some, particularly in London, are starting to voice their concerns about a possible shortfall of primary school places around England.

A Dorset town faces a shortage of primary school places caused by a «dramatic increase» in births since 2005.

More than 200 extra primary school places are to be created in Bristol in a building currently used by police.

Separate figures have shown there are many unfilled primary school places in England - more than 444,000 - either where parents are shunning unpopular schools or local child numbers are falling.

«In recent years, a large number of additional primary school places have been provided to keep pace with demand, and as these pupils progress through the school system, we expect to see a significant need for additional secondary places in the next few years,» they added.

Some early figures are beginning to emerge, with the pan-London Admissions Scheme saying 103,329 pupils applied for primary school places in the capital this year - just 58 fewer than last year - «demonstrating that pressure on places remains strong».