A MEETING has been arranged for parents to discuss the implications of losing guaranteed access to Turton Media and Arts College for their children.
Parents in Edgworth and Belmont are concerned that their children will have to travel miles to high schools in Darwen.
That would be likely if an agreement allowing their children to cross the border from Blackburn with Darwen into Bolton is torn up by Bolton Council.
Bolton has proposed criteria under the new School Admissions Code which would not honour the 30-year-old agree-ment.
Darwen MP Janet Anderson has written to schools minister Jim Knight, asking for an amendment to the code which would allow the agreement to continue.
She told him how the children would struggle to travel into Darwen on buses and find it difficult to participate in after-school activities.
She will be among those attending the meeting at the Barlow Institute, Edgworth, on Friday at 7pm.
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