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Plans for Broadclyst school criticised

Teachers' Union opposes free school outside local authority control

There's criticism this morning of plans for a new free school in East Devon.

The proposal for a 420-pupil primary School at Broadclyst, near Exeter, will be submitted to the Department for Education by the existing school later this year.

They say new housing developments will lead to a steep increase in demand for places.

But Andy Woolley, the South West Regional Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, says it will be a wasteful expense and that schools should be in the control of the local authority.

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