North Lanarkshire Council has rejected calls to appoint parent representatives to serve on its education committee.
An SNP motion considered at a recent full council meeting called for the appointment of two parents, one from the primary sector and one from secondary, to be elected to thecommittee with full voting rights, as seen at several other Scottish local authority areas.
However education convener Angela Campbell argued that the status quo should be maintained as the council already engaged with the Parents’ Forum, which gave all parents’ councils a voice, as well as a consultative group which meets every term, and these meetings received very good feedback.
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