Campaigners fighting to save a special school are celebrating a temporary halt in its closure
Parents and governors of the Leas School in Clacton yesterday made a heartfelt plea to a special committee at County Hall in Chelmsford to rethink a decision to shut it.
The Hands Off Leas campaign has been battling to keep the school for pupils with moderate learning difficulties open after the county council's cabinet confirmed it was going ahead with the closure in 2005.
But yesterday, the authority's schools' organisation committee, which looks at all the decisions before they are rubber-stamped, failed to come up with a clear vote on the decision.
It will now go to the Government's own appointed adjudicator to decide.
Paul Honeywood, chairman of Hands Off Leas, said: "This is exactly the decision we were hoping to get. We are really pleased with this."
Published Tuesday July 13, 2004
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