So it’s just as we thought. When we met with Kate Evan-Hughes, Director for Children and Schools at County Hall early on Wednesday morning, it was clear within minutes that the proposal that had emerged from that extraordinary Council meeting back in January with our protest going on outside, the proposal that appeared to save YDS from closure, the proposal to keep it open as an 11-16 school but remove its 6th form, that proposal would leave YDS too small to survive. It’s what many had thought, but now we know for sure.

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