Teachers, councillors and school pupils are lobbying at Westminster against the government’s axing of the £55bn schools re-building programme Building Schools for the Future.

Today, the Save Our Schools lobby – led by trade unions – is set to urge ministers to reconsider the move, which has led to 735 school building projects being cancelled. Prime minister David Cameron said this morning that there would still be money for new school buildings and improvements, but not on the same scale as the BSF programme.

Two weeks ago, education secretary Michael Gove announced the cancellation of the BSF programme. The government is set to report this autumn on what could replace it.

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