Schools ‘hanging on by a thread’ amid funding and pupil number fears

Alec Doyle, Local Democracy Reporter Voluntary Aided schools in a north Wales county are ‘hanging on by a thread’ and risk becoming unviable due to ageing buildings and declining pupil numbers. The stark warning came from Flintshire County Council’s Cabinet Member for Education, Welsh Language, Culture and Leisure  Cllr Mared Eastwood during a special meeting…