Striking teachers in Swansea have called on the local authority’s education chief to step in over what they say are failures of their school’s governing body. Teachers at Gendros Primary are due to walk out for six days in June after five days of strikes in May saw classrooms shut to pupils in some year groups.
Members of the Nasuwt teaching union are taking action over what they describe as “adverse management practices”. Now the Nasuwt is calling on Swansea council's director of education, Helen Morgan-Rees, to act, saying the dispute which led to the walkout has dragged on for more than two years
Neil Butler, Nasuwt national official for Wales, said governors had failed to act on an independent report into matters which have led to the strike. The school’s governing body is “out of its depth”, he claimed.
