'˜Discrimination' claim as private school's funding bid rejected

Worthing Pier’s Michael Cloake supported Our Lady of Sion’s request for £1,278 from West Sussex County Council’s Community Initiative Fund to buy a defibrillator.

But the committee felt the school had ‘ample’ funds to buy its own equipment, while the defibrillator would not be publicly available.

Mr Cloake, a former Sion student, said the committee had previously purchased defibrillators for other groups, adding the rejection was ‘discrimination against private schools’.