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<p>The Government has committed £7 billion of funding for school places between 2015
and 2021, on top of investment in the free schools programme. The school system is
on track to create one million places this decade, the largest increase in school
capacity for at least two generations.</p><p>The Department collects pupil forecasts,
existing school capacities, and plans to deliver additional school places from each
local authority via the annual school capacity survey. Information from local authorities,
together with information on centrally funded projects to add places, such as new
free schools, is used to produce estimates of the future need for school places.</p><p>Data
is only collected at local authority and planning area level, and so constituency
level data is not held. The latest available estimates show that the five secondary
planning areas within Havering may require an additional 460 secondary school places
by 2023/24 in order to meet forecast demand.</p><p>The latest published data relate
to the position in the 2016/17 academic year and include secondary forecasts to 2023/24.
Data for the 2017/2018 academic year are due to be published on 28 March 2019.</p><p><strong><br>
</strong>Basic need allocations are based upon data supplied by local authorities
themselves so there should be no shortfall between the number of places local authorities
report they need to create, and the number the Department is funding.</p><p>Table
1: <br> Forecast secondary places needed in Havering by planning area (modelled estimates)[1],
[2]</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Secondary Planning Area</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021/22</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2022/23</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2023/24</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Havering
Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>58</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>93</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>115</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>197</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>460</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central
Secondary</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>156</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East
Secondary</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North
East Secondary</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>93</p></td><td><p>115</p></td><td><p>156</p></td><td><p>194</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North
West Secondary</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South
Secondary</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>59</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Figures
are rounded to the nearest whole number; therefore do not add up to the sum total.</p><p>
</p><p>[1] The data provide a snapshot in time at 1 May 2017. Currently, most forecasts
continue to increase into the future whereas plans to create places are generally
reported more strongly in the immediate future, since only places for which there
are firm plans are included. The places needed will therefore naturally grow with
time.</p><p>[2] Further information can be found in the place planning tables at:
<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-capacity-academic-year-2016-to-2017"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-capacity-academic-year-2016-to-2017</a>.</p>
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