Communities across Cardiff's Southern Arc are being left behind, as the gap of inequality widens.

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Despite regeneration efforts to improve the deprivation and wellbeing of South Cardiff, families living in Butetown and Grangetown are experiencing educational displacement as a result of an inequitable high school admission policy and increase demand for catchment places. 

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In 2016 Huw Thomas (now leader of Cardiff Council) proposed an adjustment to the existing catchment boundaries to safeguard Wales' most marginalised communities from educational displacement. Unfortunately it was decided that an adjustment to the admissions policy, safeguarding the education of communities outside of Cardiff's Southern Arc, was more equitable.

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Now children from Butetown, are 18 times less likely to be accepted within their catchment school, compared with other areas of the city and are being used as 'infills' to supplement undersubscribed schools with poorer academic outcomes in areas of high deprivation, outside of catchment.

Limiting the outcomes and compromising the safety of Butetown and Grangetown’s future generations, adding to the widening gap of inequality across Cardiff's Southern Arc.

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To safeguard this and future generations from harmful policies, community groups and families across Butetown and Grangetown, are leading a grassroots campaign to reverse this inequitable, high school admissions policy. 

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Please, ign up today and help support our grassroots campaign, to mind Cardiff’s gap of inequality!

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