Summary

  • Pembrokeshire councillors vote on school closures on 29 January 2015

  • U-turn on decision to fully close Ysgol Dewi Sant, St David's - just the sixth form could shut

  • 300 protesters gather outside meeting

  • Plans to close five secondary schools discussed

  • Public consultation to be held on proposals agreed by councillors

Live Reporting

Abigail Neal, Phil Pearson, Aled Scourfield, Sarah Moore and Gemma Ryall

  1. That is it from our live coverage of the meeting of Pembrokeshire council into school closures today.

  2. Other proposals discussed included:

    • In Haverfordwest, shut Sir Thomas Picton School and Tasker Milward and establish a new 11-16 English medium secondary school on the site of the current Sir Thomas Picton School.

    • Provide post-16 provision in a new sixth form in a formal collaboration between the council and Pembrokeshire College.

    • Expand Welsh language provision in the county by using the old Tasker Milward site to establish a new Welsh medium/bilingual school for children aged three-16, closing Ysgol Gymraeg Glan Cleddau.

  3. Abigail Neal says while the decision to retain YDS has been welcomed, concerns have been raised about the centralisation of post-16 education, particularly the distances children will have to travel.

    Protesters at county hall

  4. It is understood all the other proposals for school closures the councillors discussed are broadly unchanged.

  5. BBC Wales reporter Abigail Neal says the meeting has now finished.

  6. A public consultation will be held on the proposals agreed by councillors before the process can move further forward.

  7. Councillors earlier had to run a gauntlet of protests as they entered the meeting. See what happened here: Councillors run school protest gauntlet

  8. Sarah Moore tweets: [Council leader] Jamie Adams 'this is not a referendum, this is a decision about what's best for our education. The strength of feeling is not the dictat'.

  9. Aled Scourfield tweets: Option safeguards Ysgol Dewi Sant as an 11-16 school

  10. BBC Wales' Pembrokeshire reporter Sarah Moore tweets: The amended motion has been passed, and so the proposal to close yds school in St David's is definitely abandoned by Pembs council.

  11. A controversial proposal to completely close a secondary school in St Davids is abandoned by councillors in Pembrokeshire.

  12. BBC Wales reporter Aled Scourfield tweets: Summing up now - decision soon

  13. Earlier, about 300 people gathered outside county hall to protest against the plans, chanting "save our school" as councillors walked into the meeting.

    Protesters at county hall

  14. BBC Wales' Pembrokeshire reporter Sarah Moore, at the meeting, says a controversial proposal to completely close a secondary school in St Davids is likely to be abandoned by councillors in Pembrokeshire.

    The original plan recommended closing Ysgol Dewi Sant, but that has now been changed. The proposal is now to close just the sixth form.

  15. Councillors have been discussing the proposals for more than two hours and the summing up of the meeting is due soon.

  16. Welcome to the BBC Wales live page on controversial school closure plans for Pembrokeshire. We will be reporting from the council's extraordinary meeting as the secondary education shake-up is discussed.