Education (Vale of Glamorgan)

Part of Prayers – in the House of Commons at 12:43 pm on 19 March 1997.

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Photo of Mr Win Griffiths Mr Win Griffiths , Bridgend 12:43, 19 March 1997

I have listened with some interest to what the hon. Gentleman has been saying about this complex situation. Will he answer one or two questions in the course of his remarks? Is it true that in this year's financial settlement Vale of Glamorgan council will receive less money than it did last year? Is it true that the council, the heads and all the teaching unions—the National Union of Teachers, the National Association of Head Teachers, the National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers, UCAC—the Welsh teachers' association—the Association of Teachers and Lecturers and the Secondary Heads Association— have agreed a concordat under which no teacher will be made compulsorily redundant and no class size will be increased? That is the result of consultation between the vale and all its teachers. The head teacher who represents all the head teachers has written to the Western Mail saying that reports of things such as the hon. Gentleman is now saying are a load of rubbish and that they are disconcerting the teachers—