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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Heather Stewart

‘Where am I going to send my children?’: anguish as schools close across England

Caroline Clark (in sunglasses) and Sonia Tann outside Pancras Catholic primary in Lewes, East Sussex.
Caroline Clark (in sunglasses) and Sonia Tann outside Pancras Catholic primary in Lewes, East Sussex. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

Sonia Tann says she has woken in tears every morning since parents were informed that her local school, St Pancras Catholic primary in Lewes, East Sussex, could be forced to close next year.

A final decision will not be taken until the autumn, but with a daughter in year two and a son due to start at the school in September, she now faces the agonising decision of whether, and when, to move them elsewhere.

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