Major update issued after staff at crisis-hit Welsh school planned walk-out

Major update issued after staff at crisis-hit Welsh school planned walk-out

The school is grappling with a £2.3m deficit - a deficit National Education Union (NEU) has called the biggest school deficit it knows of in Wales

Conservative councillors welcome decision to call off King Henry VIII strikes

“The school is in an impossible situation, forced to make cuts but 90% of the school’s budget is staffing.”

Three-day strike at school over £2.3m budget row postponed

A general view of King Henry VIII 3-19 School in Abergavenny. Picture: LDRS Twm Owen, Local Democracy Reporter Three days of strike action planned at a cash-strapped school this week have been postponed.  Members of the National Education Union, the NEU, had already closed Abergavenny’s King Henry VIII School for three days this month.  Teachers had been due to close the school in a dispute over action to address its £2.3 million deficit for th…