A Hckppy & Pecefiit JJw \?eav o cdl fo No. 130 January 1993 • Circulation 11,500
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Secondary schools see cash slashed
Star swimmer Sharron helps launch homeless support campaign Two local schools combined with a building company and Olympic swimmerSharron Davies to launch a fund-raising drive in aid of the homeless in December. Devizes based builder Lovell is celebrating twenty-one years of working in partnership with local councils and housing associations across the country to provide lowcost housing. Staff at Lovell Partnership offices across the UK are being asked to hold sponsored swims in aid of Shelter, the charity for the homeless. Sharron Davies was the star performer at two events on 8 December to get the fund-raising effort off the ground. At the Prinnels, Shaw, where Lovells, Thamesdown Council and Knightstone Housing Association are building 109 homes for rent, she helped bury a time capsule containing present day artifacts including school work by children from
Salt Way Primary School on the theme 'Homes for Future Generations.' Later Sharron took to the Link Centre pool and raced a team of youngsters from Oliver Tomkins School. She also passed on swimming tips to the children and talked with parents about her life as a champion swimmerat a lunchtime reception. At present there are over 400 homeless families in temporary accommodation in Thamesdown, and more than 5,000 people on the housing waiting list. Thamesdown Council housing chairman Des Moffat said, "future generations will ask why so many people were allowed to be homeless when so many homes were empty and so many building workers were out of work." Tony Newton, a pupil at Salt Way School, describes his involvement with the project on page 2.
Sharron Davies with Oliver Tomkins youngsters, clockwise, Jason Kerwin, Peter Davis,Jona than Miller, Nichola Faulkner, Adrian Hughes, Jordon Hellewell, Michael Willis, Danielle Pearce, Robert Knapp, Ryan Clark
Wiltshire County Council Education Committee cut a total of £4 million from its budget for 1992/ 93 on 11 December in an attempt to balance the books. Secondary schools suffer the most with a E2 million cut. Half a million is being taken from Sixth Forms,therest fromlI - 16schools. Each school will have its budget allocation from Wiltshire cut according to the number of children on role. An average 800 pupil school will lose around £40,000. All the Swindon secondary schools are looking at staff redundancies. This was confirmed by Greendown School headteacher Ian Matthews who said schoolgovernors will be consideringhow savings can be made. "There will be difficult choices. Savings will have tobe made in the purchase of books and equipment and there is a possibility that staff will have to be made redundant." • Greendown parents start voting from 15 January on whether the school should become 'self-governing' by seeking Grant Maintained Status.
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