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Parents 'disgusted' at having to fundraise £50k for Stockport school toilets

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Parents say they are 'disgusted' at having to raise money towards new school toilets. The state of the loos at Lane End Primary - with broken parts and a lack of privacy - is said to be so bad that children 'are refusing to go' at school and waiting until they get home.

But with limited funding for 'capital projects', the school, in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, says its budget won't stretch to a refurbishment of the facilities and has worked with the PTA to set a £50k target for families to raise over the next few years - starting with a £10k target to complete phase one, the junior toilets.

A message sent to parents from the PTA says: "Why are we helping to pay for a refurbishment? Well, the school's budget just won’t cover the entire cost.

Lane End receives a very low level of funding per child (in fact they are one of the lowest funded schools in Stockport), mainly due to the area school is in and the fact that very few children receive free school meals. READ MORE: Tragic 22-year-old admitted to hospital with pancreatitis - died two weeks later after 'five heart attacks' "School barely has enough money in their budget to pay for staffing costs, energy costs, and resources so they wouldn't ever have a large enough sum of money to pay for a large project." Sharing the fundraising plans in the school newsletter, headteacher Claire Love said: "All of our fundraising this year is going towards funding new toilets across the school.

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