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This is the official timetable now that the consultation has come to an end, providing no major changes are made to the current proposal:
- 29th June 2009 - The Review Team Report to the Overview Committee
- 8th July 2009 - DCC Cabinet consider recommendations
- September 2009 - Statutory notices issued to schools set to close
- 4th November 2009 - Report to Cabinet on the outcome of the statutory notices
- 12th November 2009 - Full County Council considers recommendations from Cabinet and make final decision to either implement proposal, reject proposal or submit proposal to schools adjudicator
- September 2011 - Phased implementation over 2 years
In the media
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- 5 March 2009 in Dorset Echo: Protests over Purbeck schools shake-up
- 5 March 2009 in Daily Echo: Brought to tiers over Purbeck school plan
- 3 March 2009 in The Guardian: Education Notebook: Say It Twice
- 26 Feb 2009 in Daily Echo: Purbeck parents angry at ‘take it or leave it’ plans
- 20 Feb 2009 in Daily Echo: Call to rethink Purbeck schools reform
- 16 Feb 2009 in Daily Echo: School campaign's warning for Dorset
- 15 Feb 2009 in Daily Echo: 'Much to Gain from Change' says Purbeck Head
- 13 Feb 2009 on Meridian: Dorset Locals Protest over School Merger
- 6 Feb 2009 in Daily Echo: Opportunity We Must Take
- 30 Jan 2009 on BBC South Today: Last non-faith school at risk
- 30 Jan 2009 in the Times Educational Supplement: Legal Action Looms in Faith School Row
- 22 Jan 2009 in Daily Echo: MP backs fight to save Swanage school
- 19 Jan 2009 in Daily Echo:Heads speak out over middle school threat in Purbeck
- 16 Jan 2009 in Daily Echo: Headteachers blast reorganisation plan
- 16 Jan 2009 in Daily Echo: Swanage children may be forced to attend faith school
- 15 Jan 2009 in Daily Echo: No option for parents but faith school?
- 14 Jan 2009 in Dorset Echo: Parents speak out over Wool First School closure
- 13 Jan 2009 in The Independent: Where Faith Schools are the Only Schools
- 12 Jan 2009 in Dorset Echo: Wool parents vow to save threatened school
- 8 Jan 2009 in Daily Echo: Save Our Outstanding School
- 7 Jan 2009 on Meridian: Six Isle of Purbeck schools could face closure
- 7 Jan 2009 in Telegraph: Schools told to plan for austere future
- 7 Jan 2009 on BBC Dorset: School plan battle lines drawn
- 6 Jan 2009 in Daily Echo: Plea from pupils to save Purbeck school
- 5 Jan 2009 in Daily Echo: Consultation begins over Purbeck schools
- 15 Dec 2008 in Daily Echo: Head's fear for school as 'sacrificial lamb'
- 4 Dec 2008 in Daily Echo: Parents to have say on schooling in 2009
- 19 Nov 2008 in Daily Echo: Revamp will 'tear the throat out of schools'
- 14 Nov 2008 in IoW County Press: How it's being done on Isle of Wight
- 14 Nov 2008 in Daily Echo: So are they Queen Elizabeth’s fools?
- 2 Oct 2008 in Daily Echo: County rapped for resisting building
- 9 Jul in Daily Echo: Old school to be come 'centre of excellence'
- 9 Jun 2008 in Daily Echo: Council joins fight over 5000 homes
- 21 May 2008 in Daily Echo: School closures not ruled out as place surplus reviewed