Councils will be given £600million to create 40,000 extra school places across the country

COUNCILS are to be given an extra £600million to create up to 40,000 school places to cope with Britain’s burgeoning population.

Ministers will announce that local authorities across the country from Darlington to Oldham, and Plymouth to Sutton in south London with receive the extra cash.

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Around £50million of the cash will go towards expanding places for children with special needs.

In March, a Government projection forecast that senior school pupil numbers would rise by more than 600,000 by 2023 because of a baby boom fuelled by migration.

The number of secondary age pupils is expected to increase by 21 per cent alone.

The rise can be traced back to a surge in births in the 2000s following the period of sustained high immigration under New Labour.

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Childrens Minister Nadhim Zahawi said: “This funding will help create thousands more school places across the country, with a clear focus on transforming the experience of education for children with special educational needs or disabilities.”

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