John Lewis

A CYF senior staff member has been assigned to meet Dunedin North Intermediate principal Heidi Hayward to discuss her concerns about two 12-year-old pupils exposed to drug use.

The Catholic Diocese of Dunedin is to demolish Bernadette’s Church and the adjacent C J Collins Centre in Forbury Rd within the next few months, to make way for a new apartment building.

Anger at the ongoing lack of funding and resources to deal with at-risk children, such as a 12-year-old regularly using drugs, has prompted a Dunedin school principal to write an explosive open letter to several Government ministers.

DNI principal Heidi Hayward has written an explosive open letter to Govt ministers expressing ``deep concern'' about the lack of resources to help ``at-risk'' children.

Plans to establish a secondary boarding school for Muslim boys in South Dunedin have been shelved but consideration is being given to setting up a co-ed Muslim primary school instead.

Recreational walkers are outraged at the creation of a new mountain bike track linking the Nicols Creek mountain bike track to the Pineapple Track.

Bathgate Park School principal Whetu Cormick is to take up to two years' leave, to take on duties as president of the New Zealand Principals' Federation in Wellington.