Options for the future of Sneyd Community School will be put to Walsall Council’s Children’s and Young Peoples Scrutiny Panel on Thursday 18th December 2008. The panel will meet at 6pm in a conference room within the Council House and will be held in public.

Four options will be put to members of the scrutiny panel. They include options to downsize as well as to transform the school  into a trust or an academy.

Welcoming the report Lib Dem cllr Ian Shires said, “It’s important that this meeting throws out any suggestion to close Sneyd and then gets down to the business of identifying the option which gives local students the best possible chances for the future. Removing the threat of closure as quickly as possible would enable that journey to begin” he said.

Closure is hanging over the heads of of the students, parents and staff and should never have been considered in the first place. You have to ask yourself why the Tory cabinet allowed Serco, who run Walsall’s eduction service on behalf of the council, to only consider closure proposals at a time when parents were considering options for their children entering secondary eduction in September 2009?