Sentences with phrase «primary school place crisis»

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.

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Schools and parents are facing a chronic teacher shortage, a lack of school places, chaos around curriculum changes and primary tests, and a funding crisis.

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

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.

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».

There is indeed an upcoming secondary school places shortages that will be more difficult to deal with than the primary crisis.

Shadow schools minister Kevin Brennan said: «David Cameron and Michael Gove should be delivering for children but instead they're ignoring the crisis in primary places and setting up new schools where there is already a surplus of school places.

«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.

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