Cymdeithas yr Iaith have slammed the 'cavalier' and 'insensitive' way in which Carmarthenshire County Council have treated parents and local communities whose schools have been threatened with closure. The Society have called the Council's so-called Modernising Education Policy an 'absolute shambles' and have called on voters to call the Council to account in the Local Election in a few weeks time.

Cymdeithas Dyfed Organiser, Angharad Clwyd said:"According to the Council's strategy, many schools were supposed to have been put through the dreaded consultation process by now to decide their future. In May of last year the Council even named one school for consultation this year and just did not get around to doing it. This is a cavalier and insensitive way to treat parents and local communities who have been left in limbo.""The Council have obviously been surprised by the strength of opposition to their plans for mass closures and have been unable to press ahead with the timetable. They have now adopted the cruel 'stealth' approach of hoping that village communities become demoralised by the uncertainty and that parents remove the children from schools. Then the Council move in like vultures.""The Council's so-called Modernising Education Strategy has been reduced to an absolute shambles. It is obvious that you can't pay for the badly-needed expensive new school buildings by the pittance gained from closing village schools and destroying our Welsh speaking communities. The electors of Carmarthenshire have the chance in a few weeks time to call the Council to account."MEP Annual Report available here.