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PM's last visit reveals more free schools to open

David Cameron spent his final day in office visiting Reach Academy in Feltham to announce 31 new free schools.

The west-London school graded outstanding was set up by a group of teachers in 2012 and is one of more than 300 free schools that have opened since 2010.

The newly approved free schools will now start to confirm sites with many of them expected to open in September 2017, the Government said.

They are the first free schools to be approved under a new fast-track process with many of them set up by existing schools or multi-academy trusts.

The Prime Minister said that free schools had been ‘at the heart of this Government’s education reforms’.

There are now 304 more free schools and 5,188 more academies than in 2010.

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