[TheWasteLand]

So why is this happening? Is it due to dropping rural populations from migration to the cities and declining birth rates?

...new Whitehall rules are poised to withhold funding for hundreds of primary schools if they cannot fill their places.

This would suggest declining population has something to do with it.

[bruinbirdman]

"So why is this happening?"

The central government can't afford it.

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