Council to courier 11-plus results to parents and pupils
11:03, 28 October 2009
updated: 11:03, 28 October 2009
Medway Council has taken "unprecedented" steps to ensure postal strikes don’t delay children getting their 11-plus results.
More than 2,000 primary school children took the exam, now called the Medway Test, earlier this month as part of the selection process for secondary schools.
The results were due to be posted to parents on Friday but further strikes by Royal Mail workers has meant the council has made alternative arrangements.
Initially the education authority was planning to post the Medway Test results to parents' homes via the first class post on Friday and email results to schools by Monday, November 2.
But after protests from worried parents, the council announced this afternoon, Thursday, that it would send results to individual homes by courier on Friday and Saturday.
Cllr Les Wicks, education portfolio holder, said: "These test results are extremely important for our children and their parents/guardians which is why we have taken this decisive action today."
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