New post-16 campus plan survives challenge

An attempt to derail plans to build a new post-16 campus at Les Ozouets has been defeated.

Deputies Aidan Matthews and Peter Roffey argued Education, Sport and Culture’s (ESC) plans should be halted.

Deputy Chief Minister Mark Helyar warned stopping ESC’s work would be catastrophic for education.

A 16-22 vote saw the proposals thrown out.

ESC’s current plan is to build a new post-16 campus at Les Ozouets, with the Guernsey Institute on the same site.

The plans also mean sixth-form students will be schooled at La Mare De Carteret High School from September 2025.

ESC President, Deputy Andrea Dudley-Owen, said halting this plan would have led to considerable extra expense.

She said: "We really need to get on with this and fund it. We should not change things on the fly on the floor of this house."

She added that she was "relieved on behalf of all the staff who are looking for the certainty and stability.

"And I'm relieved on behalf of our kids who are going through our education system and their parents, that they also have certainty of direction now that we are moving towards this vision for the future for the campus post-16", she said.