The Capital Funding for New School Places report warns that despite the Department for Education (DfE) increasing the funding it provides to local authorities and a net increase of almost 81,500 primary school places in the last two years, there are indications of real strain on school places.
It estimates that 240,000 new primary school places will be required by 2014/15. Of these 37 per cent are in London.
It attributes the rise in the number of children born in England between 2001 and 2011, which was the largest ten year increase since the 1950s, to increased demand for primary school places and says it expects the number of births to continue to rise beyond 2014/15.
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