Carmarthenshire presses on with education programme
Carmarthenshire will press ahead with a bid to win Welsh Assembly Government funding to continue its Modernising Education Programme.
The full county council yesterday approved the updated MEP and Strategic Outline Programme prepared in line with WAG guidance under the 21st Century Schools Programme.
The council also approved the submission of the Strategic Outline Programme to WAG as its bid for support under the new national programme.
Executive board member for education and children’s services Cllr Gwynne Wooldridge said: “We have a chance to support education for the next 20 years. We need to have significant spending in many of our schools.
“We have had about £108m in spending over recent years and have been praised by the Welsh Assembly as an example. This is a bid for finance over the next 15 years. It will give the children of Carmarthenshire the best chance of an education of a high standard in the 21st Century.”
Chief Executive Mark James said despite the difficult financial situation the Welsh Assembly Government still had a significant amount of money available for investing in education. To be in with a chance of some of that money it was vital that the document was submitted promptly.
He said that the MEP had been through full consultation and that would continue as the programme went ahead.
The vote was overwhelmingly in favour, with no votes against and two abstentions.
The full county council yesterday approved the updated MEP and Strategic Outline Programme prepared in line with WAG guidance under the 21st Century Schools Programme.
The council also approved the submission of the Strategic Outline Programme to WAG as its bid for support under the new national programme.
Executive board member for education and children’s services Cllr Gwynne Wooldridge said: “We have a chance to support education for the next 20 years. We need to have significant spending in many of our schools.
“We have had about £108m in spending over recent years and have been praised by the Welsh Assembly as an example. This is a bid for finance over the next 15 years. It will give the children of Carmarthenshire the best chance of an education of a high standard in the 21st Century.”
Chief Executive Mark James said despite the difficult financial situation the Welsh Assembly Government still had a significant amount of money available for investing in education. To be in with a chance of some of that money it was vital that the document was submitted promptly.
He said that the MEP had been through full consultation and that would continue as the programme went ahead.
The vote was overwhelmingly in favour, with no votes against and two abstentions.
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