Local MP, Marcus Jones, has welcomed the news that the Government has announced an extra funding to create more school places. This means that between 2014 and 2017 schools in Warwickshire will receive £3.5m. This is part of the Government’s long-term plan to give every young person the opportunity to fulfil their potential.

It is the first time that councils have had 3-year allocations of funding to spend on school places, so Warwickshire County Council can plan ahead and ensure every child has a school place. This Government has already created 260,000 new school places and this announcement means thousands more are on the way.

Commenting, Marcus said: “This funding announcement is great news for young people in Nuneaton. It is vital that we ensure every child has a place at school so that they can fulfil their potential following years of the last government having no answers to rising birth rates, meaning we will need thousands more school places in the coming years, yet did nothing to prepare.

“This is part of our long-term plan to create an education system that gives young people who want to work hard the skills they need to get on in life and have a more secure and better future.”