Earlier this month Aberdeenshire Council cut speech and language therapy support from schools in a bid to save £200,000 over the next financial year. The council said the NHS would continue to provide “direct therapeutic services to children” but the move does mean school-based support wil...
with record amounts of road salt stockpiled in a 'national reserve'.In Grampian, snowploughs and gritters were pressed into service, with some roads closed as police warned of 'treacherous' conditions.The extreme weather, expected to hit the rest of Scotland today, is likely to be the earlies...
“History has recorded that there isn’t any example of a rural community in the UK failing because a school has closed,” he adds. Sandy Longmuir, chair of the Scottish Rural Schools Network, says other councils - he cites Highland and Aberdeenshire - are watching Argyll and Bute with in...