Secondary school places for all 'undeliverable', councils warn

The legal duty of councils in England to ensure that every child has a school place could soon become undeliverable, local authorities have warned.

With a population bulge about to hit secondary schools, councils want powers to open new maintained schools and to compel academies to expand.

Thousands of children are due to hear on Tuesday which secondary school they will attend from September.

However the government says the warning amounts to "scaremongering".

Robert Pigott reports.