{"id":1079,"date":"2013-05-22T12:25:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T12:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:25:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:25:28","slug":"half-of-new-free-schools-will-be-created-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2013\/05\/half-of-new-free-schools-will-be-created-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of new free schools will be created in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: right;\" ><a class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-via=\"\" data-count=\"none\" data-related=\"mohanjith:S H Mohanjith,mattburgess1:Matt Burgess\" data-lang=\"en\" data-url=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2013\/05\/half-of-new-free-schools-will-be-created-in-london\/\" data-text=\"Half of new free schools will be created in London\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=&#038;count=none&#038;related=mohanjith%3AS%20H%20Mohanjith%2Cmattburgess1%3AMatt%20Burgess&#038;lang=en&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fhelpmeinvestigate.com%2Feducation%2F2013%2F05%2Fhalf-of-new-free-schools-will-be-created-in-london%2F&#038;text=Half%20of%20new%20free%20schools%20will%20be%20created%20in%20London\" >Tweet<\/a><\/span>\n<!-- Code Embed v2.2.1 -->\n<iframe width=\"600\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/fusiontables\/embedviz?viz=MAP&amp;q=select+col2%3E%3E1+from+1cbgrooVhotCh-PhbIlOK1dd-NvKEG6RucTGeJio&amp;h=false&amp;lat=52.75766053469509&amp;lng=-3.575284937499987&amp;z=6&amp;t=1&amp;l=col2%3E%3E1&amp;y=2&amp;tmplt=2\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- End of Code Embed code -->\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Gove has announced 102 new free schools which are going to open in the England in 2014.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The schools, which are state-funded independent schools, will join the\u00a0existing\u00a081 free schools which have already opened and aim to create <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/more-than-100-free-schools-applications-approved\"><strong>50,000 new places for pupils.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/more-than-100-free-schools-applications-approved\">The Department for Education said:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many of the free schools approved today will be based in areas of deprivation, or where there is a shortage of school places, like the schools open or approved before them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ve looked at the areas where they are going to be built and found that the <strong>majority of these new schools<\/strong>, almost half, will spring up in <strong>London.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<!-- Code Embed v2.2.1 -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/s3.datawrapper.de\/ub1Fh\/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" oallowfullscreen=\"oallowfullscreen\" msallowfullscreen=\"msallowfullscreen\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- End of Code Embed code -->\n<\/p>\n<p>The most notable absence is that there are <strong>no free schools<\/strong> to be opening in the <strong>North East<\/strong> in the latest round of announcements.<\/p>\n<p>Despite London dominating the regions for the number of new free schools the most new free schools a local authority area has is 4.<\/p>\n<p>Waltham Forest,\u00a0Newham,\u00a0Hertfordshire,\u00a0Birmingham are the local authorities who will see the <strong>most free new schools.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A breakdown of the new schools by local authority can be found below.<\/p>\n<p>\n<!-- Code Embed v2.2.1 -->\n<iframe width='600' height='275' frameborder='0' src='https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/pub?key=0ApOyiQf0W9IndDllZE9GOU9DM1R2bnJxYTF1OWpIZlE&single=true&gid=2&output=html&widget=true'><\/iframe>\n<!-- End of Code Embed code -->\n<\/p>\n<h2><strong><\/strong>What age pupils will be going to the schools?<\/h2>\n<p>How the free schools are made up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>78 are mainstream schools<\/li>\n<li>8 are special schools<\/li>\n<li>16 are alternative provision<\/li>\n<li>33 are primary<\/li>\n<li>36 are secondary<\/li>\n<li>11 are all through schools<\/li>\n<li>5 are 14 to 19 schools<\/li>\n<li>5 are 16 to 19 schools<\/li>\n<li>12 are other age groups<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Michael Gove has announced 102 new free schools which are going to open in the England in 2014.\u00a0 The schools, which are state-funded independent schools, will join the\u00a0existing\u00a081 free schools which have already opened and aim to create 50,000 &hellip; 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