50 / year cannot be a “standard budget” because it’s impossible to maintain a workable school estate with that replacement rate. After a few decades of 50 / year schools around the country will be fa… (View Post)

Something else that I’d like to see journalists pushing on: there are something like 32,000 state schools in the UK. Replacing 50 a year means it takes 650 years to get through them all. How many sch… (View Post)

Actual quote from the ex-civil servant here: https://twitter.com/BBCr4today/status/1698595798445932834 btw. He’s absolutely clear that they were rebuilding 100/year, that 300-400 were needed & th… (View Post)

Latest infographic from the DfE according to https://twitter.com/thhamilton/status/1698969465457643970 Are you feeling reassured? I’m very reassured by this, obviously. (View Post)

Local government are allowed to buy them. Or at least I assume they are since I get a slow but steady drip of announcements from my city council about the latest house they’ve bought & turned int… (View Post)