Crest Academies Financial Problems

The Willesden and Brent Times reports that the Boys Crest Academy in Dollis Hill is having to cut staff to make ends meet (No link, their web site is a bit rubbish). The problem is that fewer pupils are going into the school, and school funding follows pupil numbers. This is likely to get worse if the Liberal Democrats follow through on their broken promise on buying the adjoining land. The failure to buy the land will mean the rebuild taking four years rather than two, a big chunk of most pupils' school life. Many parents won't want to have their children educated on a building site. Fewer pupils will mean less money and more redundencies. In other words, a disaster delivered to you by the Liberal Democrats.