"I think it’s a nice addition to say that as a council, as a body, and it was unanimously supported, that we do apologise for the failings of the past."
Paul Whiteman, general secretary of the NAHT union, said it "beggars belief that the government is pressing ahead with the lowest number of school building works in almost 10 years".He called on the government to invest an extra £4.4bn annually to upgrade school buildings.
Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the government was "simply not putting sufficient money into capital funding", adding: "It is not only damaging to the pupils and staff who are working in these conditions but an entirely false economy because the cost of patching up the school estate will just get more and more onerous and less affordable".Tim Warneford, whose consultancy helps schools with funding bids, said the latest figures were "a kick in the teeth to those schools" that had put in applications but were turned down.The government says its funds are allocated based on condition surveys it has carried out.
Announcing the £1.8bn on Tuesday, Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said the government was "continuing to invest in the school estate, so all children are taught in the best classrooms for generations to come".Bereaved families are calling on the online regulator Ofcom to shut down a "vile" website which promotes videos of the deaths of their loved ones.
The website, which we are not naming, has more than three million members and contains thousands of graphic photos and videos of real-life killings and suicides as well as executions carried out by extremists. Past members include those who have gone on to commit school shootings and murders, the BBC can reveal.
From Monday, Ofcom gets new powers to crack down on illegal content, but it may not be enough to close the site.The defendant has previously told Isleworth Crown Court that when she took the drugs she did not believe she was more than 10 weeks pregnant - the legal time limit for at-home terminations.
She denies unlawfully administering to herself a poison or other noxious thing with the intent to procure a miscarriage."I just felt really bad, I didn't know I was pregnant or that far along," Ms Packer said.
Breaking down in tears, she went on: "If I had known I was that far along I wouldn't have done it... I wouldn't have put the baby or myself through it."Ms Packer said that she wrapped the baby in a scarf, but there were no signs of her being alive. The jury previously heard that she took the baby to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in a backpack the day after taking the medicine.