The Government needs to concentrate on increasing capacity and improving schools in the areas that need it the most - Angela Rayner

Angela Rayner MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Education, commenting on an NAO report on capital funding for schools, said:

“Hundreds of secondary schools in England are already full to capacity, while thousands more are crumbling and in desperate need of repair. Yet the Tories continue to waste millions opening free schools in areas that do not need them.

“The Government needs to concentrate on increasing capacity and improving schools in the areas that need it the most.”

This is only going to get worse with the new schools funding formula.

The government have no clue what is actually happening in schools outside of London, it really is a disgrace.