article_snippet.sent: Soaring immigration means most parts of the country could have fewer available primary school places than pupils in just two years.
article_snippet.sent: It comes after the head of Ofsted Sir Michael Wilshaw warned last year that schools were struggling to cope with growing numbers of migrant pupils.
article_snippet.sent: ‘When schools were struggling to cope with growing numbers of migrant pupils’re faced with an influx of children from other countries, schools were struggling to cope with growing numbers of migrant pupils need the resources and capacity to deal with it
article_snippet.sent: It comes as parents brace parents for ‘primary school offers day’ later this month, when councils will tell families whether families secured families first choice of school.
article_snippet.sent: Many parts of the country saw a rise in applications last year and up to four in ten children were denied admission to to four in ten children chosen primary schools.
article_snippet.sent: David Simmonds, the chairman of the LGA’s children and young people board, said: ‘Mums and dads rightly expect Mums and dads child to be able to get a school place where Mums and dads live.
article_snippet.sent: Yesterday, Labour seized on the predictions to attack the Coalition’s free schools programme, claiming that the Coalition’s free schools programme was creating extra places in areas where they were not needed.
article_snippet.sent: Labour’s education spokesman Tristram Hunt said: ‘David Cameron’s crisis in school places is yet more evidence the Tory plan is failing children and working families.
article_snippet.sent: Make no mistake, Tory decision to plough hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ money on free schools into areas where there are no shortages of school places comes at the expense of the families in the areas where there is a desperate need.
article_snippet.sent: Of the more than half of areas expected to have more pupils than places by 2017/18, the worst hit will be in London and the South East.
article_snippet.sent: The worst-hit areas are those which tend to be popular with both young families and migrants. '