Presumption Against Closure of Rural Schools - Code of Guidance

The motion

That the Parliament notes the continuing anxiety of rural communities across Scotland faced with rural school closures; notes the work of, and reports to, the Education, Culture and Sport Committee in Session 1 on rural school closures and its recommendation of 4 July 2000 that national guidelines be revised; regrets that COSLA abandoned its earlier agreement to draw up such a revised code of practice in 2001 by proposing a review of legislation by the Scottish Executive instead, and is of the view that the Executive, having acknowledged in March 2003 that COSLA was no longer carrying out this work, should itself, as a matter of priority, produce a revised code of guidance on rural school closures which should have as a central tenet the presumption against closure of rural schools.


No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

SNP 14 Green 5 SSP 2 LD 1 Con 1 Ind 1 SSCUP 1

Party shown is each supporter’s party when the motion was published.

No contribution in the Official Report cites S2M-01111 by reference.