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Lib Dems to lobby Government on school building cuts
July 7, 2010 11:42 AM
Councillor Jeanette Sunderland, leader and education spokesperson on education for the Liberal Democrats on Bradford Council has spoken out about the cuts in the building Schools for the Future programme She said,
" The Liberal Democrats will be making strong representations to the Government about the cancellation of the building programme.
"We will be basing our appeal on the Secretary of State's promise that his first duty is to guarantee an expansion in school places to meet the need for more places. Bradford has a growing population of young people and we can show that we will need extra places. This would help some of our most hard pressed schools although it won't deliver the new special school for our most vulnerable children which we have fought for and which we thought was secure.
" On 31st March this year, the council received confirmation that the Phase 3 projects would go ahead. The letter even praised us for the quality of our submission and £337m was to be set aside with the immediate release of £70m.
" But now we know we were being lied to by the Labour Government. There was no money. There was no £337m. And Bradford spent over £2m navigating this complicate, expensive and bureaucratic process for nothing. As the Secretary of State said, Labour's plan was based on unsustainable assumptions and unfunded promises.
"If Bradford had been able to build schools using traditional methods of financing capital projects, we would be much further ahead than we are."
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