Authorities are being urged to discuss falling pupil numbers as a regional issue.
Councils in north-east England are being warned they are "sleepwalking into a crisis" unless they start discussing falling pupil numbers as a regional issue, rather than a local one.
We are already seeing school closures in North East, with falling birth rates being cited, and we are being warned it could become more prevalent in the coming years.Last year Northumberland County Council decided to move from a three-tier education system to a two-tier operation. The council says an investment of £50m in the Berwick partnership of schools is set to transform education in the area for generations to come and that architects have created a series of designs for the first schools.
"So you would have each authority dealing with its own particular problems and potentially industrial action by the teaching unions and non-teaching unions because they won't be happy with the way this process is being managed. He said there was a real "sense of disappointment" and closing a school had an "wide impact on the community".
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