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Calls for academy playing field protection

Calls for academy playing field protection
Ministers have admitted that academies are able to sell off school playing fields without independent checks, leading to calls for protections to be beefed up.

Labour’s shadow education secretary, Stephen Twigg, said playing fields at academies should have “the same protection as at other schools”.

It comes after the Department for Education was forced to apologise for releasing inaccurate information on how many fields have been sold off under the Coalition.

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