School closures: the message from North Lorn is that concerted action can save all the schools

Benderloch school closures meeting 9

Benderloch’s Victory Hall last night (18th November 2010) was just that. We came away from it believing that this entire set of insultingly ill-founded and ill-prepared proposals to close 25 of Argyll and Bute’s primary schools can be thrown out. Continue reading

School closures: Coalition? We don’t think so. And early access to final closure proposals for a privileged few councillors?

A and B MugThe procedure around the schools closure proposals from Argyll and Bute Council’s education department seems to be descending into an undemocratic farce.

We are hearing that the ruling coalition is not meeting as such and that its senior partners, the Alliance of Independents, are meeting alone, trying to get ahead of the game in developing tactics of their own. Continue reading

School closures: Argyll and Bute Council compulsory redundancies may come – yet education department salaries skyrocket

(Updated below 10th November 2010) Argyll and Bute Council has never pretended that compulsory redundancies could absolutely be avoided Continue reading