BSF Impact

Recently the UK government scrapped the Building Schools for the Future programme.

By the way, I notice you don't have Javascript enabled. You won't miss anything important, but the page might be a bit more fun if you enable it.

Map

This map shows all of the [stopped?] BSF schools in the UK.

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Politics

Here we show the breakdown of BSF schools by their local political party control.

- Original division of BSF schools
- 1,262 Total
- 372 Conservative
- 810 Labour
- 80 Liberal Democrat

- BSF schools stopped
- 728 Total
- 268 Conservative
- 418 Labour
- 42 Liberal Democrat

- BSF schools unaffected
- 534 Total
- 104 Conservative
- 392 Labour
- 38 Liberal Democrat

About this page

This is me playing around with open data, trying to learn Ruby, Sinatra and HAML (although, due to hosting issues, this is just a basic html file), and grappling with the HTML5 canvas element. Hence it may not work properly in some browsers; at the time of writing you definitely won't see the graphs, or some of the CSS effects, in any version of Internet Explorer (you'll need the latest versions of Firefox, Chrome or Safari in order to see the graphs). Currently the information is static, but I hope eventually to generate it dynamically. (As you can probably tell, I've also been playing with jQuery.) Michael Grimes, July 2010