A Macclesfield school has won a successful grant to carry out repairs.

St Alban's Catholic Primary School is one of 12 schools across Cheshire East to get a cash boost from Westminter's improvement fund applications.

The Macclesfield school has been contacted for comment about what they've will spend the money on.

Nationally, the government gave out £465 million for 1000 repair projects in schools across the country. The north west recieved £58.5 million funding in total, with 158 successful projects.

Baroness Barran pictured in 2017. (Image - CC 2.0 Chris McAndrew Unchanged https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Official_portrait_of_Baroness_Barran_crop_1.1.jpg)

Baroness Diana Barran, Minister for the School System, said:

"Our condition improvement fund has already completed more than 11,000 projects, making a difference to pupils and teachers across the country. These projects help to create safer learning environments that make a difference to the quality of education for pupils.

"It's hugely important that every school has access to high-quality learning facilities and these funding allocations will make sure that responsible bodies can start to plan ahead and get projects started to replace roofs, boilers and windows – so pupils and teachers can learn."

But Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, warned the money was not enough.

He said: "This is money allocated through an annual bidding programme to address significant needs in terms of the condition of school and college buildings and is most certainly not an example of government largesse.

"It is the bare minimum and nowhere near enough to meet the cost of remedial work to repair or replace all defective elements in the school estate in England – which at the last count stood at £11.4bn."

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