A QUESTION mark hangs over Government cash which would help revamp four Oxfordshire schools.
In March it was announced that Oxfordshire was to join the Building Schools for the Future scheme, created to rebuild and transform every secondary school in the country.
The county council formally entered the scheme at the end of April.
In the first stage of the scheme, Banbury School and Cheney School, Oxford, were to be 50 to 70 per cent rebuilt, while Larkmead School, Abingdon, and Iffley Mead Special School, Oxford, would benefit from a 70 per cent rebuild at a cost of up to £62m.
But it is now not clear if the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition will continue with the scheme, after Education Secretary Michael Gove pledged a review of Building Schools for the Future when in opposition.
A statement from Partnership for Schools and the new Department for Education said: “The Department has not yet made a decision on Building Schools for the Future funding or other capital programmes.”
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