WIRRAL West MP Esther McVey has waded into the row over a headteacher’s absence from a prestigious Merseyside school – declaring: “This needs to be resolved”.

Her call follows the year-long suspension of West Kirkby-based Calday Grange grammar school’s headteacher Andrew Hall, who suffered heart failure in April, 2010.

Governors lifted his suspension in November, but then told Mr Hall he will be “re-suspended” and put before a disciplinary panel when he is able to return to work.

He faces 13 allegations, including failure to report a foetus in a jar and claims he was part of a bullying regime.

In a new school survey, almost two-thirds of parents said they did not believe the governors were managing the school well, months after Ofsted stripped the school of its “outstanding” status and told the governing body it needed to restore “confidence” among parents and staff.

In January, 2009, the school became the first in Wirral to become a trust, meaning it came out of the local council network and formed the Calday Grange Trust.