All Saints: All quiet - still no answers five months on

Nov 27 2008 by Hazel Ettienne, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

OFFICIAL bodies are still refusing to talk about the suspension of two heads from a Huddersfield school, five months after they were removed.

Information about the inquiry into the joint heads at All Saints Catholic College at Bradley Bar has still not been made public.

The Examiner has made repeated requests to Kirklees Council, the school itself and its governing body asking for information about how the inquiry into Liam Harron and Mary Nixon is progressing.

Both are still being paid.

But five months after the shock suspension in July a statement from Kirklees said simply: “The council cannot make any comment on personnel matters relating to individuals.”

Mr Harron and Ms Nixon made history in 2004 when they became the country’s first joint heads.

But in July they were suspended of their duties at the college because of concerns over them raised by two professional associations and one trade union.