Our Elected Representatives Can Do More

Rebecca Blake, Labour Parliamentary Spokesperson, today asked Worcestershire County Councillors & Worcestershire Members of Parliament live on BBC Hereford & Worcester radio to do more on school funding for Redditch schools.

"Redditch schools cannot afford to lose £1.8 million.  Head Teachers in Redditch tell me that for some schools this could mean losing as many as four teachers. 

Worcestershire MP's and County Councillors can do more to stand up for our children against these cuts.  Given Staffordshire elected representatives are meeting with an Education Minister at the Department for Education to raise their concerns with the Government reforms, I have asked our elected representatives to do the same and raise these unfair cuts to Redditch schools.  In addition I have asked for Worcestershire County Councillors to not vote for these cuts in October".

One Deputy Head wrote to Rebecca stating that Worcestershire County Council dismissed concerns at the recent meeting as "there will always be winners and losers in every change".  The Deputy asked "Who will come and tell our parents and our pupils that the Local Authority see them as the losers and their education is clearly less valued than the neighbours up the road".

Cllr Rebecca Blake said "It beggars belief that these changes can in any way be described as the Government addressing the fairer funding issue in the County".

Coverage by Redditch Standard