Schools at risk under Labour education plans

Labour has been urged to scrap its policy of threatening to close schools under-performing schools and instead commit to tackling the core problems in the Welsh education system.  In a speech in February Labour’s education spokesperson, Leighton Andrews said, ‘where a school is found to be failing, and I regard the situation to be irredeemable, I will close it.’  Plaid Cymru, which has committed to making education the priority for the next decade of Welsh government has rejected this approach stating that they do not believe that any child, or school, should be considered as beyond help.