The £12 billion cost of delivering places for the extra 900,000 pupils in English schools over the next decade could push schools to "breaking point", according to the Local Government Association (LGA).

Speaking ahead of the deadline for primary school places, the LGA said that with schools "pulling out all the stops" to provide places for students, the situation is already precarious.

Needless to say, schools will, as things stand, reach a crisis, whereby there is no more money or space to cater for the upswing in pupil places.

To avoid this from happening, council leaders advise that the government fully fund the cost of all school places, today and in the future.

"Mums and dads rightly expect their children to be able to get a school place and councils and schools are doing everything they can to provide this, in some cases going to extraordinary lengths to create places," said councillor David Simmonds, chairman of the LGA's Children and Young People Board.

"But we fear a tipping point could soon emerge when councils and schools can no longer afford the massive costs for the creation of places, nor find the space necessary for new classes, if this crisis is not properly dealt with."

Mr Simmonds added that at the heart of the matter is a simple want – that no child be without a place, so that they can experience the best education possible wherever they live.

Another recommendation the LGA has put forward is for the government to cut the unnecessary level of bureaucracy that hinders councils from "creating places on time and in the right places".

"Additionally, much of the decision making about new school places rests in the hands of the government, whose funding for school places came late," he went on to say.

"As a consequence, councils are carrying a billion pounds worth of costs which puts pressure on other school services."