London Councils, which represents the capital’s 33 local authorities, says that “the scale of the school places crisis in London is vast”, with 83,470 places needed to be created between 2014 and 2017.
Between 2010 and September 2013, London’s boroughs created more than 46,000 school places, but an analysis by London Councils says more funding is needed to continue this expansion.
The £9,000 per-pupil figure is calculated on the basis of a shortfall of £1.04 billion that it estimates the capital needs in order to build the additional school places.
It also points out that while funding to local government will have fallen by 35 per cent in real terms by 2014/15, between 2001 and 2011, the capital’s school age population rose by 107, 000 – a growth rate of 8.2 per cent compared with the 0.2 per cent national average.
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