A SOUTH Powys school governing body have had their right to a delegated budget suspended by the county council. Powys County Council has taken the action involving Clyro Church in Wales School’s governing body to prevent the school from falling into a situation of rising deficits over the coming years. These are powers granted under the Schools Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 to suspend the governing body’s right to a delegated budget. The suspension will allow the council to secure control of staffing and other spending decisions and to take control of the school’s budget, including addressing the projected deficit budget over coming months.
THE entire board of governors at a Powys school are resigning over a decision to suspend its right to a delegated budget. Powys County Council announced on Friday (December 18) that it had taken the action involving Clyro Church in Wales School’s governing body, in order to prevent the school from falling into a situation of rising deficits over the coming years. Within an hour, chair of governors Mari Fforde announced on Twitter that she was tending her resignation as the school was being portrayed as failing despite a glowing Estyn report in June 2019 and because pupil numbers had fallen by just four, which would trigger a number of redundancies in the new year.