London could become a 'childless city' as pupils numbers fall, schools close and families move out due to spiralling costs of transport and housing, teachers claim.
New-build flats replacing family homes and falling birthrates are also said to be influencing the drop which started before Brexit and Covid but has since accelerated.
National Association of Head Teachers vice-president Dave Woods told The Times there was 'almost one thing on top of another' contributing to the plunge in pupils.
He said: 'It's a phrase that is talked about in meetings ... about London becoming a childless city. You've got high housing, high transport prices, a cost of living crisis.'
Mr Woods, headteacher of Beaconsfield Primary School in Southall, added that family homes were being replaced by smaller apartments in his area of West London.
