Pressure is mounting on the government to do more to help English local authorities create 700,000 additional school places estimated to be needed by 2025.
A National Audit Office (NAO) report on capital funding for schools, published last week, provides the latest evidence to emerge on pressures in the education system. It found that £6.7bn needs to be invested in school buildings to bring them up to a satisfactory standard, and that 231,000 primary and 189,000 secondary places are needed by 2021.
Local authorities are legally responsible for ensuring sufficient school places exist for all children to attend. In England, there are around 21,200 state-funded schools educating 7.9 million pupils aged four to 19.
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