London boroughs are among the hardest hit, with thousands of school places being lost, but the closures and cuts extend to other cities and areas as they adjust to fewer children being born or moving into their catchment areas.
Anntoinette Bramble, Hackney's deputy mayor and cabinet member for education, said it was an incredibly difficult decision to close schools treasured by parents. This is the only way to ensure that we can minimise the long-term negative impact on Hackney education and more widely on the council's budget, at a time of extreme financial pressure. None of this is due to any fault of our schools, their leadership teams or staff, Bramble said.
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