Julian Ware-Lane hails funding boost for schools in Castle Point

 

Schools in Castle Point will benefit from millions of pounds of new investment in state-of-the-art classrooms, arts, sports and ICT facilities over the next three years. 

Julian Ware-Lane, Labour candidate for Castle Point, welcomed the funding boost for local schools and said that it was part of the biggest sustained investment in schools for a generation. 

Essex will get £244MILLION of funding for schools capital over the next three years, every school would benefit. This will mean more money on schools for all parents in Castle Point. 

 "A twenty-first century society needs twenty-first century buildings and equipment. Giving our children these improved facilities will help prepare them for the challenges that lay ahead."

 

“After decades of neglect and underinvestment we are transforming our schools so they are fit for the twenty-first century and ending once and for all the days of leaking school roofs, freezing classrooms and even outside toilets.

 

“Every school in our area will benefit from this funding boost."

 

“In the year 2010/11 the Government will be investing £83 MILLION in Essex on new classrooms, school buildings and IT facilities. That’s 381% more in real terms than in the last year of the last Conservative government. 

“But all this extra investment would be put at risk by the Conservatives. They are proposing massive tax cuts that they cannot fund, while making dozens of pledges to spend money they do not have. Their sums don’t add up and the black hole in their spending plans will put both our economic stability and our investment in schools at risk.”