The move followed the publication last week by the union of a report, Free Schools – Free for All?, in which it calls for the programme to end and for existing free schools to be brought under the mainstream state education system.
The report also wants to see local authorities given back control over school admissions.
The union said that warnings issued by the Liberal Democrats three years ago over free schools had now become reality.
At its conference in 2010, the party expressed concern over the government’s flagship policy and stated that local authorities should have strategic oversight of school place provision. It warned of the creation of “surplus places ... prejudicial to the efficient use of resources in an age of austerity”.
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