Advice on Action to Take!

If you are unhappy with the proposals of the Secondary Admissions Review, do all or some of the suggestions for action given below.

If you are already doing these things, then well done! And please keep doing them, we mustn't let the pressure drop before the vital Childrens, Families and Schools Committee meeting in January. (Although we will all need a few days off for Christmas.)

• Keep writing to Councillors, and it is now important to contact members of the Children, Families and Schools Committee with your concerns, especially if you haven't yet done so. Keep up the pressure.
• Write to Gil Sweetenham , the Assistant Director of Education, and ask him why he did not consult every parent, and why Free School Meals banding was thrown out so quickly and not modelled.
  gil.sweetenham@brighton-hove.gov.uk
• Write to the Editor at the Argus and to the editors of national papers like: The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, The Sunday Times, and The Observer on Sunday.
  
• Contact our local MP, Dr Des Turner, and tell him it's not too late to do something about the proposals put forward by the SAR. Ask him for his support.
• Sign the Coombe Road School Petition at the School Christmas Fair on Saturday (starts 11am).
  
• If you are not at Coombe Road School, contact
  enquiries@schools4communities
  and ask them to send you information about starting a petition at your school.
• Talk to other parents in the playground about the Secondary Admissions Review when you pick up or drop off your children. Many of them are still not aware of the proposed changes, and need to be informed. Some parents do not have the Internet, and gossip is a great way to keep them in the information loop. Also, families in Bevendean and Moulsecoomb may not realise that the changes will not just affect their children, but will affect the community in other ways, for example residents leaving the area and landlords buying up properties.
  
• Write your comments about the Secondary Admission Review to
  myview@schools4communities.co.uk
  As these will be collated, printed, and sent to the Children, Families and Schools Committee by Schools4Communities. This will ensure that your thoughts on the SAR are passed on properly to those Council members.