Carolside Primary School Parent Council AGM

The motion

That the Parliament notes that section 7 of the constitution of East Renfrewshire’s Carolside Primary School’s Parent Council states that all meetings of the parent council are open to all members of the Parent Forum and to the public; further notes that, at the AGM of Carolside Primary School Parent Council on 20 May 2009, the Director of Education of Labour-controlled East Renfrewshire Council, with support from the Labour education convener, ejected from the meeting a member of the public and a reporter from local newspaper The Extra at the point where the council proposed to outline its plans to increase dramatically class sizes at the school; condemns this breach of both the constitution of the Carolside Primary School Parent Council and the basic principles of local democracy, and calls on the chief executive of East Renfrewshire Council to offer an official apology to those ejected from the meeting, along with an assurance that the council will act with more care in the future.


No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

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Party shown is each supporter’s party when the motion was published.

No contribution in the Official Report cites S3M-04253 by reference.