Parents 'so worried' about plan to cut teaching assistants

Parents say they are "filled with fear" about a primary school's plans to cut five teaching assistants.

They say the changes at the school in Bristol would affect their children's education, particularly for those with additional needs, and could pose safety problems.

The 470-pupil Cheddar Grove Primary School in Bedminster Down has opened a staff consultation on its plan to cut 13.1 full-time equivalent teaching assistants to 8.3.

Futura Learning Partnership, which runs the school and 25 others in the South West, said standards would not drop if the cuts went ahead.