School cuts Cymru campaign launch

The School Cuts campaign officially launched in Wales today at the Urdd National Eisteddfod in Cardiff. The campaign is supported by NEU, ASCL, NAHT and UCAC, and launched with a School Cuts Cymru branded stall.

ITV Wales came along at 11 to do some interviews and this report made the news this evening https://www.facebook.com/Mairead.Whelan2016/videos/10156449195827099/

Councillors, AMs and MPs were invited along to the stall at 11am but as it was a bank holiday none turned up and some are now expected through the week

We had an amazing reaction from the public, many were already very aware of school cuts and had stories of their own as parents and teachers. We were overrun for a large part of the day with people eager to sign up in support of our campaign and Sheila Jones and Angela Sandles did a great job making up the goody bags with branded products and information for us to give out to parents and children.

Supporting the campaign will be the new fully-bilingual School Cuts Cymru website, https://schoolcuts.cymru/ where people can look up their school to find out the impact of cuts at the school level. Alongside this, a social media launch is planned with video stories of our members sharing their own experiences of school cuts.

Please come and help at the School cuts stall sometime this week if you can spare some time and don’t forget the Together for Education event on June 22nd which is for both England and Wales. Attendance at this event will be very useful for us at the beginning of our school cuts Cymru campaign as we have much to learn from the experience of English districts who have already long been campaigning on school cuts and have a wealth of experience to share. There is a group of us attending which is getting bigger all the time. Can secretaries please support activists in your districts who would like to attend by paying travel expenses.