To think that the present governant has not done enough to alleviate the school places crisis

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My neighbour has not got a nursery school place at the local school 300 metres away. The school is not a good school and recently the entire senior management was replaced. Currently it is under a local authority improvement plan. I feel that the lack of school places in the area gives schools no moviation to improve. I don't live in London and I believe that the issue of school places is a nationwide problem.

Parental choice is a joke. Free schools can't be set up in areas with no land.

It really is terrible, we were lucky that dd got a place, we are ones who live furthest from the school and it is at the end of our road!

I had countless arguments with the council at application time as we could put down this new school as a choice but were given no info about it.

Then the council said there was no demand for it.

Talking to the parents at the nursery gates, most didn't even know it was an option. So now the council are having to pay to transport kids to overcrowded schools with temporary huts built on playing fields rather than parents being able to walk them to what could be a fab school.

Its depressing that no one wants to take responsibility for this when it was fairly obvious it would happen when planning permission for two estates of 5000 houses was given over 10 years ago. Then when the birth figures shot up they could have then started looking at school planning. I honestly can't see what they thought would happen?