Current status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 11 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken following the publication of the Audit Scotland report, Improving the school estate.
The Scottish Government has discussed this report with COSLA as most of the recommendations were addressed to local authorities, or jointly to the Scottish Government and local authorities. We accept the recommendations of the report in full. A joint Scottish Government and COSLA working group, including representation from the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and the Association of Directors of Education in Scotland, has been established to consider how the actions recommended in the report should best be taken forward. Discussions regarding future policy, funding and delivery have already commenced, with the intention of publishing a new school estate strategy by spring 2009.
Copies of the Audit Scotland report are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 45152).