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Capital needs extra £600m for school places

Councils in London have called on the Government to provide £600m in extra funding to provide additional school places in the capital.

Councils in London have called on the Government to provide £600m in extra funding by 2016 to cover the costs of providing 90,000 additional school places in the capital.

London Councils, the lobby group representing the capital's 33 local authorities, this week predicted that 90,000 extra primary and secondary school places must be created over the next four years.

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