SIR – I believe the support given by Councillor Michael Kelly (T&A, December 18) to the decision made by the School Forum to fine Carlton Bolling College nearly £170,000 for failing, in his own words, to follow “correct procedures” is hugely disappointing.
The college’s “crime” was to submit a year-end form late. Notification of the March 31 deadline was buried in a weekly newsletter distributed to all schools, but was not included on the list of required year-end procedures sent to all school business managers by Education Bradford.
The college has never had to send this particular form in before and has never missed a deadline for any other year-end form in the past.
Carlton Bolling College has gone from the torrid days of a fire, split-site provision and Special Measures to being the first secondary school in Bradford to be deemed “outstanding” – is this the way to treat a school that has done so much for the BD3 community? Sheer madness!
Councillor David Ward, chairman of governors, Carlton Bolling College, Greenfield Lane, Idle
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