Legal teams in Bradford are studying a Court ruling into the scrapping of a major school re-building programme after a group of councils took the Government to the High Court and won.

The High Court told Education Secretary Michael Gove he must reconsider his decision to axe the £55 billion Building Schools for the Future (BSF) scheme in each of the six authorities after Mr Justice Holman ruled the Government had unlawfully failed to consult them before imposing the cuts.

Twenty-one school building or refurbishment projects in the Bradford district were frozen as a result of the decision to abandon programmes nationally.

Councillor Ralph Berry, Bradford Council’s executive member for children and young people’s services, said: “We will be reviewing this decision immediately. It has only just broken and the legal team will need to look at it. We need to do everything we can to get our scheme back on track."

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