Isle of Wight Council officers have said staff cannot solve the issue of surplus school places and build a new children’s services department at the same time.
Headteachers and governors representative, Simon Richards, said it was disappointing the Council could not tackle both things at once.
At a meeting last Thursday, he accused leading council cabinet members of dragging their heels and said the issue of surplus places was 1st raised over a year ago.
Mr Richards said inaction meant education was suffering.
The Isle of Wight Council has been in partnership with Hampshire County Council for a decade but that will end on 31st January and the Island’s authority will go it alone.
Outgoing leader, Councillor Lora Peacey-Wilcox said:
“We need to look at ways to effectively manage the empty spaces issue. Inevitably, this will involve the closure of some schools.
“This is not an easy course to take. In particular, it relies on information, understanding, consideration and if necessary, acceptance that there is no other alternative.”
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Seems there’s no evidence they can even do one thing, other than ignoring the views of the general public,,worrying about their pension pots, and pandering to their developer friends
The council knew this was coming so therefore had time to prepare for it. So why didn’t they? Totally useless. Where’s Bob Seely “Welcoming the changes”
Pretty sure that closing down schools that are wasting vast sums of public money is a simple and sensible thing to do. Get on with it you lazy clowns.
This could take several years knowing the incompetence of our motley crew , commonly known as the Council!!!!!!
Can’t do more than one thing at a time !!!!!!
The future of schooling will be from home.