Sentence examples for school places which from inspiring English sources

The figures will fuel the controversy over the shortage of primary school places which re-emerged last week with a highly critical report from the influential Commons Public Accounts Committee.

This government has already committed to invest £7bn on school places, which, along with our investment in 500 new free schools, we expect to deliver 600,000 new places by 2021".

It is also concerned that a system where some schools are in council control and others answer to Whitehall risks creating surplus school places, which they regard as wasteful in an age of austerity.

A Department for Education spokeswoman said the government had allocated £5bn to creating new school places, which was "more than double the amount spent by the previous government in the same timeframe".

So on schools, we are told "the government is investing £5bn... to ensure that there are sufficient school places, which can be in free schools".

In his written ministerial statement, Mr Gove said: "We are giving local authorities longer-term allocations for new school places, which will give them more certainty in their planning".

Most people would identify with schools as places which provided them with a particular type of learning experience.

You publish a consultation document setting out two possible areas that both have a clear need for school places, in which it could be built.

All any party needs to offer is a sustained attempt to provide social housing, better planning of school places (for which local authorities have been pathetically under-prepared, considering their five years' notice) and some undertaking to tackle the stagnant wages and rising prices that are making everybody's lives worse.

Mr Hunt accused the government of creating a "crisis in school places" in which "thousands more children are being crammed into overcrowded classes, threatening school standards".

Partnerships for Schools, a government agency, is looking at identifying schools with surplus places which could be used - and at least one proposal in the pipeline is to co-site a free school within an existing one.