At least 35 jobs are to be lost across three Island schools in compulsory redundancies, it has been announced.
A meeting was held on Tuesday by the Governing Body of the Island Innovation Trust to outline the redundancies that would be issued in the April/May period, effecting the staff at the three Island Innovation Trust run campuses – Medina, Carisbrooke and the IV Form campus at Nodehill – and would be done in order to save around £500,000.
A further 30 positions could be lost with voluntary redundancies on the cards, as reported earlier this year. This could bring the total amount of job losses to 65.
Supporting students have rallied together to create a petition to prevent the large number of job losses, which is feared could negativly effect the student’s progress and ability to learn. Over 280 supporters have already signed the competition, which can be found at https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/emma-shambrook-keep-all-vital-staff-members-across-the-three-campuses.
The Governing Body of Medina and Carisbrooke Colleges has confirmed that it has entered into a period of consultation with regard to a number of proposed compulsory redundancies at both colleges, including the VI Form Campus in Newport.
Chair of Governors, Terence Hart said:
“Our overriding aim is to create a sound financial platform for continuing improvement in the quality of teaching and learning across both Colleges and the VI Form and build on the good progress that we have made so far.
“Whilst our recent voluntary redundancy scheme has had a significant impact, further identified savings over the next two financial years still need to be achieved. As such, we will continue to work closely with staff and their professional associations throughout a period of informed collective consultation so that we can consider ways to minimise the number of redundancies needed.
Article continues below this advertisement “Our compulsory redundancy proposals affect staff in the areas of support, premises and cleaning (33 Posts), with minimal impact on teaching staff (2 Posts). We are working hard to ensure that staff are helped and supported through this difficult time and are continually looking at ways to reduce the overall impact on posts before the end of the consultation period”
