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Topic: Re:Will Putney Hospital now be sold to the highest bidder?
Posted by: Caroline Whitehead
Date/Time: 31/12/10 10:45:00

My understanding is that the Council are, in fact, buying the site for a Primary School in order to address the shortage of primary places in Putney. The question as to whether it is to be a "Free School" or not is to my mind somwhat obscure as the concept promulgated by the Government includes parental management plus involvement by a private company (as in the case of the Free School on the Bolingbroke Hospital site).

However it seems that a school can be a Free School  managed only by a private company, although it would still be financed by the Council. This seems me to raise a number of questions and it would be helpful to be given more information as to why a Free School is felt to be "better" than a school run by the Council, which, after all, would have parents among the Governors. 


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TopicDate PostedPosted By
Will Putney Hospital now be sold to the highest bidder?30/12/10 19:52:00 John Horrocks
   Re:Will Putney Hospital now be sold to the highest bidder?30/12/10 22:21:00 Bunny Payne
      Re:Re:Will Putney Hospital now be sold to the highest bidder?31/12/10 01:30:00 John Chambers
   Re:Will Putney Hospital now be sold to the highest bidder?31/12/10 10:45:00 Caroline Whitehead
      Re:Re:Will Putney Hospital now be sold to the highest bidder?05/02/11 19:01:00 John Horrocks
         Re:Re:Re:Will Putney Hospital now be sold to the highest bidder?05/02/11 21:43:00 Alex Harvey
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Will Putney Hospital now be sold to the highest bidder?09/02/11 11:01:00 Hugh Thompson
         Re:Re:Re:Will Putney Hospital now be sold to the highest bidder?04/03/11 19:46:00 John Horrocks

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