An email last week from a NS District Councillor commented: "Jeremy Blatchford's defence about the difficulties in predicting number for reception class seemed very weak. Generally, there are pretty good indicators from health data. ... "I was surprised to hear about the scale of the problem and surprised about the lack protest from your elected members."

Are you interested in getting more involved with the LASCG? If so please read on. Following Guy's newsletter #1 we want to arrange a meeting next week to run through how we intend to maintain momentum with the campaign. A few of us have been involved with a series of activities over the last month or so, and we have reached a stage when we would like to get further input, ideas and involvement from other members of LASCG. In particular, at the meeting we intend to: 1) Discuss and agree a strat… Continue

The Clevedon Mercury has also published a decent length piece today: Click Here. Cllr Blatchford is being very disingenuous. Whereas it may be technically true that so far only one child is being sent by taxi to Pill the fact remains that 23 children didn’t get a place in Long Ashton and are having to go to school elsewhere. These kids are still being transported… Continue

More press coverage - this time in the Evening Post: Click Here Please add a comment to the article - the more comments they get, the higher they will rank our story for future coverage. Guy

On behalf of LASCG I spoke at a full meeting of North Somerset Council this evening. Rather than engage the council in a futile debate based on procedure, process, clauses and budgets I went for the human interest approach. You can find the text of my speech here.