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Tuesday, 27 November 2007 |
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The Polish baby boom: Fears for NHS and schools as 1,000 Polish children are born every month
'Hospitals and schools are struggling to cope with a huge influx of Eastern European children, new figures show.
The number of Polish babies born in UK hospitals has almost quadrupled since the 2004 EU expansion.
On current trends, there will be more than 13,000 such births this year, costing the NHS more than £20million.
In addition, more than 240,000 Eastern European children have arrived in Britain's schools - with head teachers warning that some are now close to breaking point.'
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