Traveller camp is still keeping kids off school
OLDER pupils at a school forced to close because of an illegal traveller camp are due to be back in class today.
But many at Camp Hill Primary School in Nuneaton will remain off as work continues to move travellers on from outside the school premises.
The school has been unable to reopen after the Easter Holidays due to health and safety concerns, which claims that travellers have thrown rubbish on the school field, including nappies and excrement.
There have been at least 15 caravans parked on the land along with vans and two horses. Another Nuneaton school has come to the rescue of Camp Hill Primary to help out older pupils at the school who are due to take exams soon.
Camp Hill Primary posted an update to the situation on its Facebook page yesterday. It said: “Michael Drayton School have kindly agreed to accommodate our year 6 children during this difficult time.
“Would all year 6 children be at the Camp Hill CHESS centre for 8.10am where we have arranged a coach to take them and return them back there at the end of the school day.”
The council has now been given the powers to evict the travellers.
Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council was granted a court order yesterday for the group who have been parked up on the land called The Dingle in Camp Hill. The order has now been served on the encampment and if the travellers don’t leave the land within 24 hours, they will be evicted by