Long Ashton school crisis

Lots of children, no school places. We need the council to listen to us now!

Our schools are oversubscribed. The Council says it's acceptable for infants to commute up to 2 hours a day to other schools. Thirty children will be unable to get into a village school next year. We need more school places. Read progress below.

Contact

Email us on info@lascg.org.uk

Write to the Council - template letter

A number of people have asked for a standard template letter which could be printed out and sent to the Council to voice their concerns about the schools problem. Please find the template available to download here.

Upcoming Events

18th November 6pm - Guy Kingston will be addressing the Full Council Meeting at Weston Super Mare.
12th November 1pm - Childrens and Young Peoples Services Scrutiny Panel meeting. We intend to send at least one person to ask questions.
Date in November TBC - Next meeting with Councillor Blatchford.
Contact us via the email address to get involved!!!<</a>/u>

Members

  • Tabetha Newman
  • Heather
  • Sarah-Jane
  • Guy Kingston
  • John Macdonald
  • Hannah Mainstone
  • Ann Hodgetts
  • Louise Bloxham
  • Helen Cooke
  • Ruth McAllister
  • Martin Smith
  • Richard Barry
  • Michelle Windle
  • abdul
  • Tamar Sutton
  • Liz Smith
  • Rachel Foyle
  • BG
  • Elaine Tancell
  • Carole Hudson
 

Blog Posts

Guy Kingston

A Councllor Writes ...

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."

Posted by Guy Kingston on November 25, 2008 at 12:43pm — 1 Comment

Ann Hodgetts

LASCG Meeting, can you come?

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

Posted by Ann Hodgetts on November 21, 2008 at 2:18pm

Guy Kingston

And Another Story ...

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

Posted by Guy Kingston on November 20, 2008 at 10:30am

Guy Kingston

Evening Post Article

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

Posted by Guy Kingston on November 20, 2008 at 9:30am

Guy Kingston

Speech to North Somerset Council

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.

Posted by Guy Kingston on November 18, 2008 at 9:16pm

 
 

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