{"id":45417,"date":"2025-01-20T22:18:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T22:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chopsybaby.com\/magazine\/?p=45417"},"modified":"2025-01-20T22:18:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T22:18:04","slug":"bristol-schools-forum-backs-down-on-recording-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chopsybaby.com\/magazine\/bristol-schools-forum-backs-down-on-recording-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Schools Forum Backs Down On Recording Row"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The public meeting was filmed and made available online after the democracy row last year<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Bristol Schools Forum has filmed its first meeting of the new year through YouTube – and left the recording available for members of the public to watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It comes after a row at the end of 2024, when a member of the public was told not to record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attempt to stop the recording of the public meeting was later branded as “fantasy”<\/a> by the Chair of Children and Young People Committee Councillor Christine Townsend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At December’s meeting of Children and Young People, Townsend said: “\u201cThe idea that a public meeting is somehow different because it\u2019s school forum as opposed to another type of public meeting is fantasy in my view and I will be following that up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the previous meeting of Bristol Schools Forum on Tuesday 26 November 2024, Chair of the forum Steve Hornsby attempted to stop a member of the public from filming the meeting, supported in his stance by a Bristol City Council Democracy Officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hornsby’s reasoning for stopping members of the public from filming was because “It just feels wrong.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bristol City Council Democratic Services and Bristol Schools Forum Chair try to stop a member of the public from filming the public meeting because it \u2018felt wrong\u2019. The Forum scrutinses education budgets in Bristol and makes decisions on the movement of millions of pounds of education funding #bristolcitycouncil<\/a> #bristol<\/a> #bristollife<\/a> #coverup<\/a> #bristolpolitics<\/a> #politics<\/a> #politicstiktok<\/a> #sendtiktok<\/a> #sendtok<\/a> #educationfunding<\/a> #education<\/a> #send<\/a> #specialeducationalneeds<\/a> #sendfunds<\/a> #bristolsend<\/a> #bristoltiktok<\/a> #bristoltok<\/a> #democracy<\/a> <\/p> ? original sound – ChopsyBristol<\/a> <\/section> <\/blockquote>