Is Sandwell playing Politics with our schools?

We have been saying that the BSF programme was wasteful on this blog for months

see pull them down now build them again,

After our council bulldozed a number of school losing over 2000 places saying “we didn’t need them “only to announce a few years later Woops we do need them.

We also questioned who was in charge of school maintenance for the last 30 years?

Now our local MP James Morris has stepped in 

James Morris MP backed the Government’s decision to scrap the Building Schools for the Future programme agreeing with Mr Gove that it was a wasteful and inefficient.
The MP said:

“A line should be drawn under BSF after Michael Gove’s decision and Councillor Cooper should stop politicising this subject and playing politics with our children’s education.

“I have been lobbying the Government hard on the subject of the capital funding of schools in Sandwell and believe there are now better solutions that are in place to repair schools.
“Michael Gove has allocated £500m for the schools in most need and there will be a survey of all school buildings to ensure the money goes to the most deserving schools which was not the case with BSF.”
Mr Morris pointed to The James Report which revealed that BSF was £10billion over budget and often the schools which were the best at the bidding process got the most money and not the schools which were in the poorest areas. Mr Morris added: “Now BSF is history I want to work with Sandwell’s leader Darren Cooper about finding better solutions for Sandwell’s schools.

Sandwell Tory said
Let’s wait & see if Sandwell do apply for this new money?

Read the full article

http://www.halesowennews.co.uk/news/local/9149731.James_Morris_MP_blasts_Sandwell_leader_for__playing_politics__with_schools/