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Posts Tagged ‘Department for Education’

Town Hall pursuing cross-council campaign to halt Islington school closures

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 11 April 2025
Highbury Quadrant parents, teachers and children march in protest

Islington Council to push for change to inner London funding – but new efforts will not affect current plans to close two primaries this year

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Primary school in Islington could be axed this year as council plans move ahead

By Noora Mykkanen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 9 February 2024

Town Hall proposes merger of Montem and Duncombe schools – doing so ‘with a heavy heart’

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Islington Council slams government for intervening to save local primary – saying it has put other schools at risk

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 4 July 2023

Town Hall says Department for Education has ‘compromised the council’s statutory duty, and moral responsibility, to ensure children can access an excellent education’

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Academy steps in to rescue Islington primary school from closure – leaving parents ‘elated’

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 27 June 2023

Pooles Park was at risk of shutting for good because of falling pupil numbers

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Council calls on government to reverse ‘horrendous’ school cuts

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 21 September 2018

‘We still believe in Islington that we have a duty to protect all of our children’, says councillor

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