The mayor of London Sadiq Khan has urged councils not to make permanent decisions on school closures based on a current fall in birth rates in the capital.
Speaking to CYP Now, Khan said he was “really worried about local authorities taking permanent decisions based on what could be a short to medium term blip in the demography of London”.
“I’d encourage councils not to take decisions which later on they regret,” he added, highlighting the pandemic and cost-of-living crisis as reasons why families are moving out of the city.
“If they’re boomerang Londoners and they come back and schools have been shut down and property sold off, that’s a problem,” he said.
