Keep Camden School Locally run

Your Carshalton Central councillors Alan, Jill and Hamish are fighting alongside parents to help Camden school stay in local hands as this popular school is under threat from a take-over by an outside organisation.

Update 10th July 2013: With the welcome help and support of some concerned parents, we have delivered around 1000 special Camden School FOCUS leaflets to local households about this issue as of Wednesday, 10th July 2013. We hope to deliver to more local residences in coming days…you can see the leaflet by clicking on the relevant heading on the right hand panel of this web site, or by clicking here:-

Camden School Special FOCUS July 2013   Update 13th July 2013: Nearly 1500 leaflets delivered to local residents!

Campaigners joining forces with councillors

Cllr. Jill Whitehead says: “Many local parents send their children to Camden School in West Street, Carshalton. The government plans to turn this school into a sponsored academy and will shortly decide if the sponsor should be locally based Greenshaw School or a national commercial group called the Harris Federation which has no links to the Borough. We believe in local schools for local people, run by locally accountable bodies.” 

Cllr. Alan Salter, a Governor of Camden school, adds: “I believe fervently that Camden Junior School should be sponsored by Greenshaw – an excellent nearby school here in Sutton. It has the experience and capacity to help Camden improve and provide the quality of education our community needs. Only Greenshaw would keep Camden as part of the local education community. I urge local residents to fill in the Keep Camden Local Petition (from Camden School or see www.KeepCamdenLocal.wordpress.com)  to let the government know how we feel.

Cllr. Hamish Pollock added: “We are aware of Camden parents’ concern over the threat of Harris being the sponsor when it has no Sutton connections or local record. Do please join the Keep Camden Local campaign, sign the petition and the letter NOW. For more information contact: camdenparentchampions@gmail.com.”  

 

 

One thought on “Keep Camden School Locally run

  1. Bob Wootton says:

    I believe it is vitally important that the people and families that use the school should be the same people involved in the running of the school. Only the people “on the ground” are in a position to know what and when issues arise and how to deal with them.
    In EU speak, this is termed “subsisidiarity”; decisions should be made at the lowest i.e. the appropriate level.
    In scientific terminology, this is termed “algedonic monitoring” of System 1 operations. This one of the conditions necessary to ensure the viability of an organisation, i.e. the school,

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