A top performing primary school has beaten the axe. Parent power won the day when ruling Cabinet councillors, lobbied by demonstrators, finally decided that Leigh’s Gilded Hollins Primary should be removed from the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) review to stay open. But the same meeting was condemned after agreeing that three borough high [...]

A union chief has joined the protest against Wigan’s super schools programme, fearing job cuts amongst teaching staff. The government has confirmed the £80m first phase of the private finance initiative proposals for the borough to go ahead with the Building Schools for the Future programme. The huge Building Schools for the Future programme (BSF) [...]