Crisis in primary school places
Parents facing long journeys to get their children to school because of a lack of local places are blaming councils for the problem, saying there has been a lack of proper planning.
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School places in crisis
Temporary classrooms to cope with extra children
We've thrown the spotlight on the growing problem of a lack of primary school places in the South East.
Scores of temporary classrooms have been brought in to help with the rising demand and some schools are preparing to expand to take up to 200 extra children every year. Our social affairs correspondent Christine Alsford reports.
Solving the school places crisis
by Christine Alsford
Schools across Sussex are being expanded to provide 6,000 extra primary age places. But is it the right way forward?
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Temporary classrooms go high-tech
Dozens of temporary classrooms have been brought into schools this term to cope with soaring demand for primary places.
In West Sussex alone there are 25 new mobile units, many housing up to 60 children.
But if you thought a temporary classroom in 2012 was cramped and draughty think again. The headteacher of Edward Bryant School in West Sussex gives our education specialist Christine Alsford a tour.
School places in crisis
Families in the South are having to drive up to 80 miles a week to get to school because local schools are full.
Read the full storyParents blame councils for lack of school places
Parents whose children have to attend schools far from home because of a lack of local places say they are paying the price for poor council planning.
Sharon Chapman, a mother from Bearsted in Kent, has to travel 80 miles a week to take her four-year-old daughter to school because she was not allocated a place closer to home.