South Wales Central Conservative MS Andrew RT Davies has welcomed the Vale of Glamorgan Council’s climbdown after it withdrew a heavy handed plan targeting local headteachers.
The Council issued legal warnings to seven headteachers, and planned to haul them before a panel to explain their financial plans.
This has now been withdrawn.
Mr Davies had previously slammed the Council’s approach, pointing out years of underfunding by Senedd ministers had left Vale schools facing a shortfall.
He warned the Vale’s budget from Welsh Government is determined by a series of indicator based assessments, which have consistently allocated an insufficient amount to education.
He said this had placed significant financial pressures on schools.
Mr Davies pointed to several wasteful projects Senedd ministers have funded, which have taken money away from education.
He cited 36 more Senedd members, the Nation of Sanctuary for asylum seekers and Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan as projects that had cost hundreds of millions of pounds.
Mr Davies said:
“While I welcome this climbdown – the Council should never have blamed Vale headteachers for this funding crisis in the first place.
“Our schools were underfunded while Plaid Cymru separatist and Labour Senedd members wasted hundreds of millions on 36 more Senedd members, a Nation of Sanctuary for asylum seekers and an Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan.
“The Council must now join residents’ calls for these projects to be scrapped and demand the fair funding the Vale deserves.”
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