{"id":18281,"date":"2017-12-12T17:33:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T17:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=18281"},"modified":"2018-02-16T11:31:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T11:31:48","slug":"extra-funding-for-cardiff-high-school-too-little-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/extra-funding-for-cardiff-high-school-too-little-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Extra funding for Cardiff High School &#8216;too little, too late&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Plans for a \u00a3284m city-wide investment will not come soon enough for Cardiff High School according to a local councillor.<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Cardiff Council have agreed the ambitious investment to regenerate schools, but it will not start until 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The proposals, jointly funded with the Welsh Government, will support the rebuilding or expansion of 13 schools, creating more than 2500 new spaces.<\/p>\n<p>However, Liberal Democrat Councillor Bablin Molik, who represents Cyncoed and Lakeside, says Cardiff High School needs urgent action as it is already oversubscribed.<\/p>\n<p>She said that Cardiff High receives more than double the number of applicants than places available.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is the council going to do in the meantime to provide places for the students who are going to be applying for places? There aren&#8217;t enough places in the city to accommodate them,&#8221; she told CJS News.<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff Council do intend to expand the school and create an extra 300 spaces over five years, but not until the full plan begins from 2019 onwards.<\/p>\n<p>The council&#8217;s plans aim to accommodate the projected increase in demand for spaces in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The council say they are not currently looking at any issues for Cardiff High School before the investment in 2019, but may consider &#8220;interim measures&#8221; if these are needed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plans for a \u00a3284m city-wide investment will not come soon enough for Cardiff High School according to a local councillor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[744],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18281"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18397,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18281\/revisions\/18397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}