John Penrose has visited Westhaven School to find out more about their fundraising efforts for a new sports hall. Westhaven School is located in Uphill and caters for 96 pupils with a range of learning difficulties or physical disabilities which mean they cannot use the facilities available in mainstream schools. Over the…
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The first General Election hustings took place in Weston-super-Mare on Wednesday last week and members of the public put their questions about education to the candidates… Conservative candidate John Penrose, Labour’s candidate Tim Taylor, Liberal Democrat Mike Bell and Green candidate Suneil Basu attended the event – which the North…
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Weston-super-Mare’s MP says he ‘couldn’t be happier’ about the Government’s plans to overhaul school funding. Weston and North Somerset schools have historically been underfunded when compared to nearby schools in Bristol and in other local authority areas across the country. In 2014 the Mercury launched a campaign for fairer funding…
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MP John Penrose celebrated the end of a long campaign last week as the Chancellor, George Osborne, announced in his Autumn Statement that the Government will introduce a proper National Funding Formula for schools for the first time ever. The formula is expected to end the unfair system where a…
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