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Caroline
Flint backs Edlington School rebuild
4 December 2006
Don Valley MP Caroline Flint is throwing
her weight behind the plan to get the Edlington School
rebuild underway after a meeting with new headteacher,
Kevin Oliver and Edlington school's Business manager,
Andrew Jackson.
Said Ms Flint: "The opportunity
to rebuild this school under a Government-backed private
finance scheme is a great opportunity for young people
in this area. To spend £22million on a state of
the art 21st century school is money well spent and
I'll be backing this scheme when the planning application
is submitted.
Ms Flint said she hoped the rebuild
would get rapid approval. "We are fast getting
to the point where everyone has to pull the stops out
to get this scheme approved and contracts signed. We
hope to see a new school by autumn 2008, and I believe
that target date can be reached."
The opportunity to build new schools
at Edlington and Mexborough under a PFI arrangement
was made available by the Labour Government in 2002.
The scheme must be underway by the end of March 2007.
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