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FAMILIES are to have a new way of talking to the education administration with the so called Permanent Round Table for Dialogue between the Balearic Ministry for Education and the Parents organisations.

The Balearic Ministry for Education already has the draft plan for the creation of this Round Table, which will be constituted as a consultative body for mutual advice.

According to the director of the Balearic Government's Education Planning and Centres department, Rafael Bosch, “the parents' associations have asked us repeatedly for the creation of a body for negotiation and dialogue, like the negotiation “round tables” which unions, administrations, directors, and students already have”.

This is an initiative which, according to Bosch, “appeared very interesting to us, because while the student councils debate rules and plans and give opinions, this Round Table will debate more definite aspects or have preliminary discussions for things to be taken to the student councils”.

At the moment, the draft is in the phase where objections can be raised, but once these are resolved and it is approved, this body will be set up “possibly before the elections”.

Among the material to be debated by this body will be, for example, student placements, student timetables, and school food and transport “everything which affects the family”.