A Newcastle MP has met with the Government to air parents’ worries about major delays to the building of a new school.
Families in the north of the city were left bitterly disappointed last month, when it emerged that a permanent home for the Great Park Academy will not be ready until the summer of 2025. The latest in a string of delays to the project has been blamed on the failure of a Department for Education (DfE) procurement process to find a contractor to build the school and means that pupils will be learning from the school’s temporary accommodation at Gosforth Academy for some time to come.
Newcastle North MP Catherine McKinnell met with schools minister Nick Gibb on Monday to share major worries about the development – including ensuring that children have access to adequate teaching facilities and over the impact of escalating construction costs. The middle and secondary school was meant to open on the Great Park estate in 2020, but has suffered a number of setbacks.
