“The system for funding new schools and new places in existing schools is increasingly incoherent and too often poor value for money. The Department for Education is spending well over the odds in its bid to create 500 more free schools while other schools are in poor condition.”
The report last week from the House of Common’s Committee of Public Accounts is incredibly damning and I hope has caused some considerable reflection in the corridors of Sanctuary Buildings, the DfE’s HQ.
At a time when school funding is at crisis point and when a further 420,000 new school places are needed by 2021, the money being thrown at the free school project is obscene.
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