Tag: Priority Schools Building Programme

Patchway Community College has learned that it has been unsuccessful in its application to the Government’s Priority School Building Programme (PSBP), aimed at schools “in need of urgent repair”. Education Secretary Michael Gove announced last week that just 261 schools from the 587 that applied would receive funding, with South Gloucestershire missing out completely on the £2bn investment. Patchway Labour

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Local MP Jack Lopresti has put in a good word for a Patchway school during a parliamentary debate on Education. In a session dedicated to topical questions, the Filton and Bradley Stoke MP asked Education Secretary Michael Gove: “My right hon. Friend will be aware that his Department has received a bid from Patchway Community College in my constituency for

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