A SHOCK U-turn over changes to school holidays in Barnsley has been welcomed by a teaching union following widespread opposition to the plans.
Barnsley Council gave the go-ahead in March to do away the traditional six week break in favour of having four weeks and four days in summer and an extra week in October.
This has now been abandoned amid criticism that teachers have not been properly consulted.
The Chronicle reported last week how the radical timetable overhaul would be delayed by up to a year and education spokesman Coun Tim Cheetham was outraged at suggestion the plans had been ‘dropped on the National Union of Teachers’.
He said the local branch of the union - which represents about 1,000 members in Barnsley - had known about the changes for six months.
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