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Richmond upon Thames Liberal Democrats:Covering the constituencies of Twickenham and Richmond Park |
Big cuts in school maintenance programme
January 22, 2012 11:20 AM
• [Jan 20]: THE Tory administration has decided to cut the Council's maintenance programme for schools by 20 % from next April. News of the £254,000 budget cut was announced on Wednesday (18th) to representatives of the borough's head teachers and governors. The budget is for the larger cost items which cannot normally be paid for out of school reserves. It is used for providing replacement roofs and boilers, repairing blocked drains and providing new windows.
Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Malcolm Eady said: "This cut is very short sighted and fails to take into account any of the actual needs of the schools. Some schools are going to have to continue with leaking roofs, blocked drains and classrooms that are not fit for purpose. These cuts are taking place when the Council is planning to spend over £25m on providing sixth forms in our schools that duplicate the excellent provision already in place at our two local colleges, and when it is paying a multi-million pound sum for the Clifden road site for a Catholic secondary school. This Council is becoming very good at spending money on its ideological projects, but not on keeping the rain out of some of our existing school buildings."
• Richmond schools to lose £200,000 from maintenance budget [RTT Feb 05]
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