PARENTS DEMAND ACTION
OVER SCHOOL PLACES
Angry parents from Rickmansworth and sur-
rounding areas packed into a Mill End Primary
School last week to listen to an action group de-
manding an extra school be built in the area.
A concerned and frustrated group of parents
from across Rickmansworth, Chorleywood, Crox-
ley Green, Maple Cross and Mill End have joined
forces to urge those responsible for providing
local education services to recognise and act
upon the rapidly deteriorating ability of children
living in the area to access local, quality secon-
dary education. will not be able to get into any local school.
The parents make up „The WD3 Parents Action The meeting was attended by local figures
Group‟, which is behind a series of recent actions including David Gauke, MP, representatives
designed to raise awareness about the lack of from Hertfordshire County and Three Rivers
secondary school places available to children in District Council, including Leader Ann Shaw.
the area. Additionally, the WD3 Parents Action Group is
The group held a meeting at St Peter‟s School, seeking a commitment from the county council
Mill End, attended by almost 200 people, to voice that local school places should be reserved for
concerns related to school places in the area. It is local children, and will be campaigning for
expected that around 13% of pupils applying for the current Hertfordshire School Admission Pro-
secondary education in Rickmansworth in 2020 cedure to be amended from three choices to six,
to provide parents with the same number of
choices of school as out-of-county applicants.
Mark Sutton, Chairman, WD3 Parents Action
Group, said before the meeting: “HCC‟s recent
Meeting the Rising Demand for School places
report, makes very grim reading for anybody who
lives in the South West Hertfordshire area and
who has children who will need access to secon-
dary education in the near and long
term future.
“The lack of community controlled
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