PUPILS at two north Ceredigion schools are being forced to use corridors and a school hall for lessons - and disability access regulations might be being breached, a report has found.

Education chiefs have admitted that there is a desperate need for extensions at Llanilar and Comins Coch schools and Ceredigion County Council is hoping that it can win Welsh Government funding to cover half of the £800,000 cost of building the extensions at the two schools.

The council’s Capital Expenditure Working Group has agreed to find just over £400,000 from the council’s budget to cover half of the cost of the work, but hope to be able to get the remaining £400,000 from the Welsh Government’s 21st Century Schools programme.

A report that went before the council’s Cabinet admitted that both schools were facing problems in providing enough space for the current number of pupils, with increasing concern about a lack of toilets and the use of corridors in Comins Coch for some music lessons and for staff planning sessions.

And the report found that the hall in Llanilar School needs to be used as a classroom causing constant upheaval for pupils.

The report, by Nia James, of the education department, said: “The Learning Services management committee agreed that there was pressing need to address compliance with the equality act, the lack of space at the two schools including Disability Discrimination Act issues, insufficient number of school toilets and staff and pupil wellbeing issues.”

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