School closures: Next steps and breakdown of how it will affect you

Sep 10 2008 by Barry Gibson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

NEXT STEP IN CLOSURES

PARENTS and teachers in and around Huddersfield will discover the fate of their schools by 2010, a top councillor revealed today.

Clr Jim Dodds was speaking following the announcement of radical plans for schools in the Dewsbury area.

Kirklees Council’s Cabinet member for children’s services said: “We will start work on south Kirklees (which covers the Huddersfield area) later this year. There will be an initial round of consultation with head teachers, governors and residents early next year.

“We should be in a position to announce our plans for schools in south Kirklees by late 2009 or early 2010, but there’s no definite timetable as yet. For south Kirklees, the first brick in the wall will not be put in until 2013.”