Inside London’s school closures crisis as more than 30 primaries set to shut or merge within weeks
London is one of the busiest cities in the world. A major global metropolis home to nearly nine million people, with 22.7 per cent of those people under the age of 18, according to the most recent census data. And yet, many of the city’s primary school children have only a handful of classmates.
An investigation by the Standard has found that at least 30 primary schools could shut or merge across the capital by the end of the academic year, with politicians warning that the problem “is only going to get worse” as families continue to be driven out of the city...
Last September, the Education Policy Institute predicted that there would be another drop of around 52,000 primary school-aged children in London by 2028. In Lambeth alone, there are nearly 1,000 fewer children in local primary schools compared to 10 years ago, council figures show. Over in Wandsworth, as few as eight children have been turning up to start reception in some schools last year.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the city, the issue has become so bad that the maternity unit at one of the capital’s biggest hospitals, the Royal Free Hospital in north London, was forced to close due to falling birth rates.
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Vote in an election.
Vote with your wallet.
Vote with your feet.
Vote with your... family size.
No wonder the Powers That Be are getting concerned - tax falling means that there is less patronage to dispense. Not only to your elite class but also to your minions (doctors, nurses, teachers etc.). In other news apparently Unions are rethinking their support for Labour. All part of the same end of politics as we know it perhaps?
A city with no kids in it? I'd be tempted to go live there, if it wasn't so diverse and enriched
DJ - your order of seriousness suggests crunch time is upon us. Traditional political alignments and nostrums aren't working because they can't work, probably including censorship and repression.
Bucko - a city with no kids in it is doomed though, it has no future.
So socialism really does work - it annihilates communities, and rids the citizens of their pride and ambition.
Is Londonistan a no-go place yet?
I thought so...
Scrobs - "So socialism really does work - it annihilates communities, and rids the citizens of their pride and ambition."
That's it in one neat sentence. Destruction for the sake of destruction.
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