Free schools set up in areas 'with no need'

Three-year-old twins Peter and Ollie Sidley at Priors school in Warwickshire, a private school that became a free school in 2011. Photograph: Andrew FoxFree schools for primary-age pupils have been set up in parts of the country where there is "no basic need", government documents say, despite figures warning of an unprecedented national shortage of 120,000 places in September.Impact assessments of the first wave of free schools show that the Department for Education has privately recognised

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