It promised to revise school building guidance by January and pledged to amend planning guidance to increase the number of potential sites for new schools. But neither objective has been met.
A spokeswoman for the DfE denied that the delay to the deadlines set out in the plan would affect the timescale for setting up any new free schools, adding that the business plan published last year was a "draft" rather than a final copy.
"We will issue some short guidance for potential free school proposers during March," she said.
"This will reflect the approach we’ve been taking, and information we’ve given, to the early wave of free school projects; and what we’ve learnt from that process."
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