Thousands of children might have to wear coats in classrooms to keep warm as soaring energy bills cripple school finances, the head of an education trust admitted today.
Richard Evans, chief executive of the Vale Academy Trust, said staff at the organisation's eight schools will be faced with the stark choice of heating or teaching this winter.
The trust’s secondaries and primaries in the Oxford and Abingdon area have thousands of children aged from four to 18.
