Hodge Hill – Washwood Heath school cuts outrage.

I’ve had confirmation today of huge cuts in funding for our young peoples’ future today as in a chaotic announcement, the Tory-Lib Dem council  announced the cancellation of plans to rebuild Hodge Hill Mixed and Washwood Heath Technology College.

Over £30 million of funding has been slashed – while the Tory-Lib Dem Council in Birmingham did not raise of finger of protest.

One of our greatest breakthroughs in the last Parliament was getting in place over £63 million pounds to rebuild our secondary schools. We want to see these are real hubs for the community, open not only to help our youngsters get a world-class education, but there to serve and enrich our quality of life all year round. One of the ideas I am working on is how a ‘Sports Village Trust’ run by the community could run some of these new buildings at weekends and in holidays.

The new Tory-Liberal government has now reviewed whether to actually write the cheques for the money agreed. We need these new schools – our kids deserve the best too. Just so you know what’s at stake, here is the list of how much many – and where – we got agreed.

And here is the cold announcement I had from the Department for Education today;

Hodge Hill                                                     Stopped

Washwood Heath                                      Stopped

International School                                  Unaffected

Park View                                                  Unaffected

Saltley                                                       Unaffected

Waverley                                                   Unaffected                         PFI

The news comes five days after the Government sneaked out a report showing under Labour’s management last year, department’s came in £5 billion under budget.

We’ll be fighting this crass decision. Look out for our campaign in your area soon.