The British government is putting an extra £200m into the English education budget to fund extra places as shortages have reported.
The extra £200m will, of course, trigger a corresponding bonus for the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish budgets whether they need it or not thanks to the Barnett Bribe. The population of Scotland, Wales and NI is increasing at a fraction of the rate it is in England so they aren’t suffering the same shortage of spaces as we are south of the border.
The British government says that the shortage of primary school places is down to rising birth rates and the recession meaning people can’t afford to send their kids to private schools. Nothing to do with annual net immigration of about a quarter of million people.
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And as per usual, the government official mouthpiece, the BBC fulfils its lapdog role of news-speak to the masses….
July 13th, 2009 at 11:17 am