Last week, the Spring Budget confirmed that £320 million is to be allocated for 140 new free schools – some of which are anticipated to be new selective schools.
Before the Budget was unveiled, the prime minister wrote: “… our Schools White Paper, which will be published in the coming weeks, will take this expansion further by asking universities and private schools to do more to provide new good school places, including by sponsoring new free schools.
“It will remove the barriers that prevent more good faith-based free schools from opening, and it will enable the creation of new selective free schools so that the most academically gifted children get the specialist support to fulfil their potential regardless of their family income or background.”
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