Vote LEAP in Lambeth on May 4

The sign says Effra Primary School, but the building going up behind the fence is a block of luxury flats - not much use to the children attending the next door nursery school, who have no local school when they hit five.

I live round the corner from here in Brixton and kids on my street go to five different primary schools up to three miles away in Balham, Clapham South and Herne Hill... not because they want to but becuase they can't get into anything nearer.

So when LEAP candidate Tracey Fevrier, pictured centre, joined me and some of the other candidates to leaflet parents collecting children from the nursery the other day, we got a very warm welcome.

The BBC and Financial Times popped down to see what all the fuss was about and we all posed for the cameras in front of the nursery and its next door building site. We've had some good press coverage so far - both the South London Press and Evening Standard have done big pieces. But we need more if we're going to get the word out to all the parents who so desperately want things to change in Lambeth.

For anyone who's interested there's lots more information on the schools crisis in Lambeth at http://www.sscil.org.uk and http://www.leaplambeth.org.uk