The Shadow Education Secretary said a few months ago that Labour would keep all good free schools open. Free schools are state funded schools just like other academies. There are about 3,500 state funded academies in the country now, representing about 10% of all primaries and over half of all secondary schools. It is very unlikely, even if a new Government decided to change the legal arrangements for academies, they would close them down.
Reading Borough Council, a Labour administration, has supported The Heights from the outset.
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