Region's academies await funding verdict

MILLIONS of pounds could be cut from building projects at eight academies and one of the country's first studio schools in Yorkshire after Ministers delayed a decision on their funding and warned that they would be scaled back.

Education Secretary Michael Gove announced yesterday that funding for 75 academy building projects across the country would be cut but are still planned to go ahead, while another 44 would be fully funded.

Eight academies and a studio school, where the site is split between classroom and work-based learning, in the region will now have to wait until a capital spending review to discover what funding they will receive.

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The decision follows the Coalition's axing of the Building Schools for the Future project last month, which saw more than 80 rebuilding schemes in Yorkshire cancelled.

It was revealed yesterday that three academies in Yorkshire will receive full funding for their rebuilding plans: Appleton and Dixons Allerton academies in Bradford, and Trinity Academy in Halifax.

The eight academies which have not yet had the go-ahead include three in Doncaster: De Warenne, Rossington All Saints and the Outwood Academy in Adwick; a new school planned for Howden Clough, Batley; the Endeavour Academy in Hull; Tollbar in Grimsby; Maltby in Rotherham and Outwood Grange, Wakefield.

Funding for building plans for Netherhall Studio School, near Huddersfield, is also yet to be agreed.