- Beware of ‘bling’ dummies
- Celebrate Christmas with the Mayor
- Make your own ‘top hat’
- Can you help to give away free books?
- Council proposes to remove ‘linked school criterion’
- Healthier takeaways for teenagers
- Council moves closer to rejuvenating poolside
- Cabinet agrees on retendering of home care contract
- Cabinet votes to protect transport services
- Council backs Barnado’s ‘Cut Them Free’ campaign
- Local Stars Spread Christmas Cheer in East Sheen
- Memorial plaque will be replaced
- Rogue landlord hit with £143,000 court bill
- Celebrating the ‘Building of a Borough’
- Get playing at the new Orleans Park Sports Centre
- Making a home for bugs in Crane Park
- Richmond Runners Are Victorious
- Whitton Artist in Residence Hopes to Create Snapshot Of Local Area
- Richmond Tops League Table for Good Food
- Learn how to reduce your food waste from a professional chef
- Spy cars face the axe
- Making best use of Council car parks
- New cycle stands for Church Street
- Council welcomes new Localism Act
- Raising money for Children in Need
- Getting Into the Christmas Spirit
- Free events to help businesses go green
- The gift of peace of mind
- Richmond’s FOI responses published online
- Whitton residents offered advice on cutting bills
- What can you do to help?
- Council remembers war dead
- More schools could expand across the borough
- Olympic Torch to visit Richmond upon Thames – Twice
- Beat the crooks: return memorial to glory
- Commissioning support for organisations
- Empty Shop Unit Transformed Into Literary Salon
- Richmond Receives £3.9m to ease school places strain
- Council will consult on Catholic Secondary School
- Going for Gold... again
- Businesses invited to share in Bloom success
- Support Local Authors at Literature Festival
- Helping businesses to ‘GoGreen’
- Putting borough on the business radar
- Energy saving trick or treating
- Council to remember war dead
- Borough Seeks Youth Laureate
- Council to monitor Heathrow trials
- Sewage spillage in River Crane
Release Date: 09/11/2011
Richmond Receives £3.9m to ease school places strain
Richmond Council has welcomed the additional £3.9m from the Government to address the shortage of school places in the borough.
The Secretary of State for Education, last week announced an additional £500m for local authorities experiencing the greatest need in managing shortfalls in providing pupil places.
Cllr Paul Hodgins, Richmond Council Cabinet Member for Schools, said:
“This additional funding is great news for our borough. Richmond upon Thames has some of the best primary schools in the country, and therefore demand is very high. Every year we strive to offer parents a place at their first preference of school - however, due to the rise in the birth rate - this can be particularly challenging.
“To meet this rising demand, we have a long term school places strategy that includes funding for six schools to have permanent expansions over the next two to three years, in addition to those expansions which are already under way.
“This funding shows that despite the tough economic climate, the Government still recognise the need to invest in school places”.
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