Commenting on Pembrokeshire County Council’s school reorganisation proposals, local Assembly Member Paul Davies said:

“I’m very concerned by the proposals put forward by Pembrokeshire County Council for schools across the County. The key objective of any school reorganisation plans must be to improve education standards for children and young people in Pembrokeshire. However, these proposals raise a number of questions over how this will result in an improvement in standards and they clearly seem to ignore the views of local communities right across Pembrokeshire.

“The proposal to close Ysgol Dewi Sant would have a devastating effect on the community and many local people have contacted me to raise concerns about the effect that this closure would have on children and young people in the area. Indeed, the proposals for Haverfordwest are also very worrying and require much more scrutiny and engagement with the local community.

“Pembrokeshire County Council must reconsider these proposals and find a way to deliver education services locally that also meets the needs of communities right across the County. This seems to me to be a hotch-potch reorganisation that lacks any strategic vision for education services in Pembrokeshire. We need a first class education service that supports children and young people and results in an improvement in standards.