Lots of children, no school places. We need the council to listen to us now!
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There are two primary schools in Long Ashton: Birdwell and Northleaze. Each has a pupil capacity of 210, consisting of seven 30-pupil classes, one for each year group.
Between them, the village schools can accept up to 60 Reception class pupils each year. However, in 2008 twenty three Long Ashton children were denied a Reception Class place in the village. This is a trend forecast to worsen over the next few… Continue
Posted on December 23, 2008 at 11:32pm —
A Councllor Writes ...
"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 on November 25, 2008 at 12:43pm — 1 Comment
And Another Story ...
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 on November 20, 2008 at 10:30am —
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Posted on November 20, 2008 at 9:30am —
Speech to North Somerset Council
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 on November 18, 2008 at 9:16pm —
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Tamar forwarded me your message - that you are interested in helping out with LASCG. Things have gone a bit quiet recently. A lot of the core group was people whose children had missed out on places for this year ... and those people are now busy on other things (mainly moving house from what I can make out - very sad), also with the summer holidays things have lost some impetus. After the public meeting in June, we came up with an action plan (attached below)... but we haven't managed to follow this up by forming the 'Working Groups' and making the actions happen. I have sort-of formed a Local Council Working Group (there are about 8 of us) and we are meeting with Councillor Blatchford - probably in early Oct - we have some tentative dates - to confirm our action plan and decide how to take things forward. Other than that, things have stalled, but we should be able to get a list of names of people who are interested in the other working group areas if you want to pick up a Working Group theme and run with it. I am thinking you might be a 'Publicity Working Group' man - I have just decided this from your photo(!) .. but Publicity is an area we desperately need to get moving again. I am attaching the action plan that we made after the public meeting in June - might be a bit out of date now but have a look and let me know if there is something that interests you - or if you want to join our Local Council Working Group.
080706ActionPlandraftA.doc
Cheers,
Anna