An extraordinary meeting of cyngor Gwynedd's full council was held on the 5th February, 2026.
Gwynedd councillors were shut down even before the meeting began when the monitoring officer, Iwan Evans, messaged them to 'advise' what could and could not be asked.
Was Evans protecting the legal officer who advised senior officers in 2019?
From the Jan Pickles review -
LA1 Head C&FS requested a meeting on a ‘Mater Diogelu Brys- Cyfrinachol’ (Urgent
Safeguarding matter - Confidential) via email to LA1 C&FS Senior Manager LADO.
On
15 April 2019 a meeting of four senior LA1 officers from LA1 Ed, LA1
C&FS and LA1 Legal departments was held to consider the information
reported by Core SMT 1 to LA1 Head of Education 1.
Any complaint against the monitoring officer is to be dealt with by Dafydd Gibbard.
This was not a meeting that the chair of the council, Ioan Thomas, would have enjoyed.
Some of his decision making was poor and even a simple question such as who appointed Neil Foden as superhead to run Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle as well as Ysgol Friars was not answered...
It is understood that the appointment of a headmaster is the decision of the school's governors -
https://www.ysgoldyffrynnantlle.cymru/en/governors/whos-who
The webcast of the meeting can be found here -
https://gwynedd.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/1063308
As is often the case, the translated feed is not yet working...
Something is so very wrong within Gwynedd council...
