Council steps in following club dispute

A YORKSHIRE council is to intervene in the running of a primary school after a row over its after-hours club being run as a private company by the head teacher.

By The Newsroom

Published 2nd Feb 2010, 22:44 BST

Updated 2nd Feb 2010, 22:45 BST

Stubbings Infants, in Hebden Bridge, is set to be run by a new interim executive board after Calderdale Council applied to the Government to be allowed to install a new governing body.

It follows a summer of turmoil at the school. Head teacher Sarah

Collins has been on sick leave since September last year and Kathryn Godfrey, from Central Street Infants in Hebden Bridge, is acting executive head.

Mrs Collins was a director of the Schools Out Ltd which had run Stubbings' out-of-hours club until a council investigation recommended it be replaced with an in-house service.

Calderdale Council's head of learning services, Paul Brennan, said: "We are to make an application to the Secretary of State for approval to install an interim executive board at Stubbings School, Hebden Bridge. This application is being made with the full support of the school's governing body."