Labour argues that money has been diverted away from areas threatened with school place shortages by the Government's focus on the free school programme.
This follows a National Audit Office report that found £241 million of the £950 million projected capital spend on mainstream free schools was in "districts with no forecast need for extra school places".
– SHADOW EDUCATION SECRETARY TRISTRAM HUNTDavid Cameron is failing in his most important duty to children in this country - to ensure every child has a place at a good local school.He has created a crisis in school places, ignoring the warnings and diverting millions of pounds away from children in areas where there are shortages of places.This is damaging standards in our schools, with class sizes soaring, more temporary and unsuitable classrooms and children forced to travel further and further to get to school.
The Department for Education dismissed Labour's published analysis of upcoming primary school places as "bogus."
SOURCE: ITV NEWS.
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