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you seem very pleased with yourselves, but did you also explain the issue of building surplus places and that the St Tudy proposals will compromise Cornwall Council's capital programme more widely? The other "red risks" in the report are harder to explain and might not be as sexy but they potentially affect far more children. Are we officially ditching the primary strategy? Is all education policy in the Authority now on a case by case (whose councillor will tweet loudest) basis? Will this be another case of a judicial review when those risks come home to roost?

Compadre-The Primary strategy was written after I believe the whole St Tudy school situation started, this has been going around since 2005 and if things had been done differently by the Council and Diocese the strategy wouldn't be being discussed as a new school would have been in use by now.
You mention other "Red Risks" I presume that you are referring to creating surplus places and the possible affect on surrounding schools. If you look at the surrounding schools, two have huge amounts of surplus places already on paper, St Breward had 61% and Blisland 48% (even the formula for that is biased towards larger schools as 3 pupils in smaller schools can make up 10% ) at the time of the last school census (Dec 2009) St Tudy has none. I feel that these figures show that St Tudy school may already have had a significant affects on surrounding schools due to it's reputation (?) and would only have a further negligible affect if a new school was to be built. The strategy could never stop parents voting with their feet and the hot school of the year may become the empty school in time, no complicated formula will predict a dislike to a head or a teacher that may prompt migration. I think that they need to address in the strategy that one size fits all, small rural schools don't, they tend to be the heart of a village, they are more than places to be taught.
As Graham has said, Torpoint did not want or felt they needed a new school (how did they get to be number 1 then? and were they ever the school in the worst condition?) I sat in the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday and listened to an officer say he was planning to use the 1.7 million on feasibility etc for a new school for Torpoint, fine you may think but, the school would cost around 7 million to build and with budgets not set and no doubt when they are set in Dec 2010 will be cut, there is no guarantee that there would be sufficient funds coming down from central government to ever build Torpoint a new school, wouldn't that then be a huge gamble with tax payers money undertaking a feasibility for something that they may never have the money to pay for? at least this way we should get some bricks and mortar with it!
I think between "tweeting" you will find that the local member has put considerably amount of time and effort into achieving to where we are from Wednesday, no one thinks we will get a new school tomorrow but we are definitely nearer than we were Tuesday!
And Graham stiring? no, I think he just asked the question someone from the Council should have asked years ago...(They were probably trying to work out the formula on when to ask a school if it needs a new school, they would have probably got around to speaking to Torpoint sometime in 2015!)