At least four ministers, including Treasury Minister Philip Ozouf, are understood to be against the Education Minister James Reed’s proposal to cut more than £4 million from the annual subsidies paid to fee-paying schools, describing them as a ‘dead duck’ and ‘a bloody mess’.
A ‘serious’ Council of Ministers meeting on the issue is now planned for next week.
The revelation follows a closed meeting organised by the lobby group ParentsForChoice last night at which all in attendance agreed that the plans should be immediately withdrawn until a Green Paper on the future of education in Jersey could be undertaken.
• Read the full report in today’s Jersey Evening Post
