CYP Now - Co-operative schools: First failure must not deter others

The closure of the UK's first co-operative school should not deter others who want to go down the co-operative route, says the organisation that funded the project.

Lowick School in Cumbria recently announced that it would close due tolack of funding less than a year after becoming a co-operative.

But the primary school will live on as a community centre and thoseinvolved will continue to share the insights they gained from becoming aco-operative.

"Lowick was a great school, but what it came to in the end was it needed90,000 to keep running and the local council wouldn't give themthat.

The co-op side of things did really well," explained a spokeswoman forCo-operative Action, which put nearly 50,000 into Lowick.

"The school is now focusing a lot of effort on a report for otherco-operative projects that will highlight the benefits and thedifficulties of the approach."

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