Timetable set for school plans (thisissouthwales.co.uk)

TIMETABLE SET FOR SCHOOL PLANS
18:00 - 21 September 2005

Spokesman for Welsh pressure group Cymdeithas yr Iaith Aled Davies said that he believed the process was biased against village schools.

"There is no way that consultation about the future of individual schools can be open and fair as they are relying on the proceeds from selling off schools in order to finance a significant part of the so-called modernisation plans," he added.

"As individual consultation cannot be free and fair, we therefore need a county-wide discussion as to whether we really want to go down the path of building expensive centralised schools, decimating village communities and uprooting the children."