Sports colleges in Halesowen and Oldbury set to be hit by more cuts (From Halesowen News)
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Sports colleges in Halesowen and Oldbury set to be hit by more cuts
9:00am Wednesday 20th October 2010 in Local
SPORTS Colleges in Halesowen and Oldbury have been knocked for six with the news they are set to lose £130,000 each after Government cuts.
A leak from the Department of Education to Labour has revealed the Government plan to abandon the ring-fenced funding of £129 per pupil per year at sports colleges.
The Windsor High School in Halesowen, Oldbury Sports College and The Meadows Sports College in Oldbury will lose their specialist sports status and see budgets slashed.
Windsor High School has just opened its new Sixth Form and Oldbury Sports College scraped in as one of the last to be rebuilt under the Building Schools for the Future programme.
The budgets cuts will hit the Meadows the hardest after the special school lost almost £2m in promised grants over the Summer.
John Tipper, chairman of Sandwell and Dudley Vulnerable Against Cuts, said: “This is both depressing and distressing for everyone connected with school.
“The Meadows caters for vulnerable 11 to 19-year-olds with profound learning difficulties, some with life-limiting conditions, yet this is the third time in as many months that funding has been savagely cut.
“Can there be a better example in the country that the Coalition’s promise that the most vulnerable in society will be protected from these cuts is total and utter cynical drivel.”
Former Oldbury Town Committee chairman and Bristnall Councillor Steven Frear is furious that schools in Oldbury are suffering again.
He said: “"This is yet another savage cut by the Government that will have a long term affect on some of the most vulnerable people in our society, a society this coalition Government vowed to protect but are showing no signs of doing so.
“I do feel that if the cuts suggested turn out to be true, we need to mount a challenge."
Comments(3)
philovblackheath
says...
1:53pm Wed 20 Oct 10
Cosmena, open your eyes I think you will find it's a global recession...try remembering that!
Linebacker II
says...
2:14pm Wed 20 Oct 10
This is why we are now sitting on almost a trillion pounds of national debt and paying more in interest charges on it than we currently spend on the nation's entire education budget.
Cosmena says...
9:44am Wed 20 Oct 10
After all, it was Labour that have left this country so indebted that cutting Brown's bloated public spending has been the only way to stave off national bankruptcy. This is Labour's legacy. Never forget that.