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Council steps in to help Turing House

Richmond Council is stepping in to help find temporary accommodation for the popular Turing House School.

 

Turing House is a secondary free school run by the Russell Education Trust. It opened in September 2015 in temporary premises, at Livingston House, Queens Road, Teddington.

Its proposed permanent site in Whitton, is likely to be ready for occupation in 2020. However, it will not have room at its current location to admit a further 150 pupils in September 2018.

In order to bridge the gap so that this very popular school can continue to run, the Council has stepped in to offer the use of a nearby school site, Clarendon School, in Hanworth Road, Hampton, subject to formal Council decision-making.

The current Clarendon site will be vacated in July 2018, when the new buildings which the Council is providing for Clarendon at the Richmond Education and Enterprise Campus in Twickenham, will be ready for occupation.

The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA), whose task it is to secure sites for free schools, will make some adaptations to the Clarendon buildings to make them suitable for Turing to use.

Cllr Susan Chappell, Strategic Cabinet Member for Children’s Services and Schools, added:

“We have long been a supporter of the establishment of Turing House and the demand from its parents for an excellent school – which the head Colin MacKinlay is striving to provide.

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