Wates proposes Nightingale-style plan to build extra space for schools

By Dave Rogers2020-06-17T05:00:00

Firm says easy-to-build temporary classrooms will help tackle growing crisis

Wates is offering to come up with Nightingale-style plans to solve the growing schools crisis which has seen millions of children told their schools won’t reopen until September – at the earliest.

The issue of children locked out of school has shot to the top of the political agenda as the scale of the problem unfurls with Ofsted head Amanda Spielman expressing disappointment primary schools will not fully reopen before the end of the current summer term and children’s commissioner Anne Longfield saying “children are in danger of being forgotten in this lifting of lockdown”.

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