Labour government supports expansion of Yardley schools

Tonight's constituency committee meeting was more revealing than I expected.

As part of a briefing on school place appeals, it was revealed that the government has agreed to pump £24 million into Birmingham's schools to fund additional places, money which has to be matched by Birmingham.

What does this mean for Yardley?

Currently, it is planned to have 60 additional places available by September this year by deploying mobile classrooms, with 1365 additional places promised by 2012 in Yardley alone.

That has to be good news and I hope that the City Council delivers, given the support that they have had from the Labour government.