As confirmation is given that a Swansea secondary school has been put into special measures, news also emerges that education minister Leighton Andrews contacted Swansea Council over why the local authority failed to pass on the full amount of Assembly cash earmarked for schools in this year’s budget settlement.
According to the Evening Post, a spokesman stated that Swansea was the only one out of 22 education authorities to have received such an enquiry. He added that the minister’s intervention followed a high number of representations made to the Assembly government.
The response of Swansea’s Lib Dem education cabinet member was to accuse the Assembly of “interfering”. Little wonder that so many people fear that education in the city is about to go the same desperate way as childrens social services.
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Swansea Council is clearly far less adept at spinning the news of a failing school than it is a failing social services department. Or could it be that Iestyn is simply more independen and less prone to pressure than the Swansea Safeguarding Children Board?
Will the school governors be resigning over this appalling situation at the school? I understand that a good number of them are Labour councillors.
Or does the principle of personal accountability only apply when Liberal Democrats are in charge?
RE: Equanimous
Wake up and smell the coffee you ignoramous. Look at the mess the Lib Dem governors have made of Pennard school - the chairman lives in Gowerton and another one lives in Llansamlet. The lib Dems have ruined Dunvant school the list is endless. Everyone of the Lib Dem and Independent administration councillors should have resigned after they voted to slash the education budget by 4.6 million.
Oh and don't ever use words such as 'principles or accountability' when talking about Lib Dems because they are the sole reason Swansea childrens services are in special measures and our childrens education is suffering.
Can't stand the soppy Lib Dem freaks.
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