LGA: free schools causing shortages

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/sep/03/free-schools-open-pupils

BBC interview then reported in the Guardian:

Local Government Association

The LGA chairman, David Simmonds, said councils were facing "unprecedented pressures", leaving schools to face a "desperate shortage" of places in the near future. "The process of opening up much-needed schools is being impaired by a one-size-fits-all approach and in some cases by the presumption in favour of free schools and academies."

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/09/goves-free-schools-are-failing-solve-school-places-crisis