Many schools, already tight for space, have become part of borough-wide school expansion programmes due to a shortage of primary school places. Shortages in primary school places has resulted in part due to an ever-growing population, but also because of capital spending cuts and a freeze on new builds.
Academies and free schools are beginning to ease the pressure on places but there are few schools, if any, that have not had to expand in some shape or other across the whole borough of Richmond upon Thames where my school, St Mary Magdalen’s, is situated. This is the case in many boroughs across the country.
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