Here’s a thought for any firm that makes temporary buildings. Although it has been coming towards us for four years, the government has just noticed that more children are being born, while they have been closing primary schools. So we don’t have enough classrooms.
It seems that the government have so far rejected a Torchwood type solution. (In case you missed the series on BBC, the aliens demanded 10% of all children be handed over to them to feed their drug habit. Eventually our government gave in and agreed – but then argued about who should be handed over. So they decided to use the school league tables – schools at the bottom of the league table were taken over by the military and the children handed over).
So the worst schools are not being closed. Instead Ministers have decided to fast-track some buildings, (£200m has been allocated) but none will be available by September. So the kids have to travel. Good opportunity if you are in the building or furniture or carpeting or whiteboard…. business.
Thousands of children have already been allocated a school many miles from their family home.
Amusingly, councils will have to explain why, four years after birthrates started rising, they have not already acted. I’d love to read the answers.
Official figures show a rise in 4-5 year olds of 3.3%. A spokesman for the Department for Children, Schools and Families said local authorities should not have been caught short.
A spokesman for Torchwood said, “it’s only a story.”
A spokesman for Hamilton House said, “start planning your promotions now – shared mail on www.shared.org.uk and emails on www.emails.gs while solos are on www.solo.ac “
A spokesman for Tony Attwood said…. no that’s getting ridiculous.
Tony Attwood