Schools
(asked on 24th November 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many local authority schools have opened in the last five years.
This question was answered on 4th December 2015
On 1 February 2011 the Education Act 2011 amended the Education and Inspections Act 2006 to change the arrangements for establishing new schools. Most new schools are now established via the academy/free school presumption.
182 local authority maintained schools have opened since 01 January 2011.