Cyngor Gwynedd Council's Education and Economy Scrutiny Committee met
on 21/10/21 to discuss the closure of Ysgol Abersoch. The decision to
close the small school in December has caused much tension between
locals and the council.
Concerns have been raised that the majority of the consultation
process has happened during the Covid19 pandemic and that the council's report was inaccurate and misleading...
The Cabinet Member
for Education, Cemlyn Williams, is confident the process has been fair.
Can
the same be said of other processes the Ed department has been involved
with ?
Are critical reports being sat on by this department, too ?
With
the meeting going nowhere, Councillor Judith Humphreys proposed sending
the matter back to the Cabinet. This did not go down well and an
amendment was raised by Dewi Roberts, Councillor for Abersoch, who asked
for the matter to go before full Council to hear the views of all
Councillors.
Things then became a little surreal. During the
vote on referring the matter to full council - one lay member seemed to
freeze and stated she did not know what to do and asked for help.
Democratic services had to intervene saying she could not be advised how
to vote. The lay member voted against referring to full council and the
amendment fell by the one vote.
The proposal to send the matter back to Cabinet - from whence it came - was passed.
The webcast of the meeting can be found here - https://gwynedd.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/610141
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