Schools will get rebuilds

Published: 9 July, 2010

• IN A recent Tribune report on funding for planned major improvements at Islington secondary schools, Labour councillors claimed the government had put this funding at risk.

However, the government has this week confirmed that all Islington’s secondary schools will be refurbished or rebuilt as planned.

The Islington schools in phase three of the Building Schools for the Future programme are Central Foundation, Highbury Fields and Mount Carmel.

We’ve already seen the fantastic new buildings and facilities at Highbury Grove, Samuel Rhodes and Holloway schools and we look forward to the same high standards for students at Islington’s other five secondary schools.

All the borough’s secondary schools will have been rebuilt or refurbished by 2013 thanks to Liberal Democrat councillors pushing this programme ahead when they ran the council.

Once again, Labour has been caught red-handed trying to mislead residents.

Major improvements will definitely take place at these three schools.

Labour should be ashamed of itself for trying to scare students, staff and parents into thinking these improvements were not going ahead.

CLLR PAULA BELFORD
Liberal Democrat education spokeswoman