Motion
- Motion title
- Emergency Motion RE: City College Birmingham
- Session
- 2009-2010
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 1 June 2010
- Status
- Passed unanimously
- Motion
- L9
- Motion text
Congress deplores the announcement (on 26th May) at City College Birmingham of 78 compulsory redundancies and massive cuts to agency teachers due to
Total closure of nursery provision
Total closure of supported learning for adults
Extensive cuts to community based ESOL and basic skills with the loss of up to 1000 student places.
1. We condemn this attack on provision for the most marginalized, vulnerable and disadvantaged students, and will examine legal challenges to this through DDA and EHRC.
2. We call for an urgent enquiry into the management of the college; specifically the spending of over £8 million since November 2007 on consultants, special advisers and the interim principalship, and whether there has been any malpractice and whether taxpayers have received value for money.
We offer our full support to the branch in fighting these redundancies and will raise the issue with ministers and the SFA.
- Proposing body
- City College Birmingham
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Recruitment, organising and campaigning committee (ROCC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2010/C/06-01/133/L9