Please write to your local councillor and your MP:
Free Schools have been attracting a lot of national attention recently as the problems of this kind of school become more obvious. Closures, chaos, fraud investigations and pretty damning reports are making it clear that this is a disastrous policy. We think it’s time our local political representatives heard the message once more that we don’t want Free Schools in Waltham Forest. Please consider writing a letter to your local councillor and your MP. You can use some or all of our suggested model text here To use the model text, simply download the word document and cut and paste or amend the text as you wish.
If you’re writing to your MP, you can email
them at the following addresses: Stella Creasy MP: stella@workingforwalthamstow.org.uk;
John Cryer MP: john.cryer.mp@parliament.uk;
Iain Duncan-Smith MP: c/o nashj@parliament.uk
Or alternatively you can email councillors@walthamforest.gov.uk(make
sure you include your name and postcode so that it gets passed on to the correct
councillor).
PLEASE do let us know that you’ve contacted
your councillor/MP so that we can keep a record of who’s being written to.
*Please add your name to our petition online here:*
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/support-waltham-forests-local-community-schools.html
This petition argues that there is no need for two new secondary Free Schools in Waltham Forest.
The Local Authority has developed a better solution to the future shortage of secondary school places by expanding our excellent existing schools.
It’s not too late to stop the Free Schools by showing our support for our schools and our Council.
The Local Authority has developed a better solution to the future shortage of secondary school places by expanding our excellent existing schools.
It’s not too late to stop the Free Schools by showing our support for our schools and our Council.
Download our new leaflet and hard copy petition here:
Why we are launching this campaign:
Our excellent local schools are under
threat from four proposed “Free Schools”
As the population in Waltham Forest grows,
it is very likely that we will need more secondary school places as our primary
school children get older.
Our local
community schools have a lot going for them.
They are open to all
our childrenOur school playgrounds are a meeting place for parents and children from all walks of life
Our schools are accountable to
us because they are accountable to our Councillors who we elect
Our schools work closely with
the Council – the London Borough of Waltham Forest – to make sure the needs of every
child are met
Our schools work together, providing
opportunities that small, competing schools cannot
Four
new Free Schools are being planned for Waltham ForestWhy does that matter to you and your children?
Free Schools can choose:
1. not to teach the National Curriculum
2. not to follow fair admissions procedures
3. not to employ trained and qualified teachers
4. not to follow hard-won guidelines on healthy eating
Free Schools are not
accountable to the local community. Instead they are accountable to their
sponsor and to the Department for Education.
We all pay for Free Schools but
we have no say in whether we want them, where they are set up, or how they are
run. We have never been asked whether we want these schools.Free Schools will be bad for our local schools. They will take scarce resources away from our community schools. They will compete to attract the pupils they want which is not fair on our children and will create divisions within our community.
It matters what school your
neighbour’s children go to because they are your children’s friends.
Support
our existing community schools:We believe that the taxpayers’ money that is being used to set up Free Schools could and should be spent on our existing schools.
Waltham Forest Council is working on a better solution to the future shortage of secondary school places by expanding our excellent existing schools. It’s not too late to stop the Free Schools by showing our support for our schools and our Council.
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