Information Commission nails the coffin lid on material not held by Angus...
For Argyll has extensively covered the situation in Angus where the Cabinet Secretary’s decision on the future of Muirfield and Timmergreens Primary Schools is eagerly awaited.Angus Council want to...
View ArticleStrategic importance of the council’s unevidenced condition scores for Muirfield
All items in a condition survey cannot carry equal weight. Poor decoration cannot stand against a leaking roof as an impediment to the delivery of education. This is dealt with by the application of...
View ArticleDetailed evidence of Angus Council ‘process’ in Muirfield condition score...
Ed Thomson, a qualified working surveyor, surveyed Muirfield school in its 5 year cycle of inspection, on the 3rd March 2009. He diligently recorded every facet of the building, giving each a score...
View ArticleTwisted saga of Angus Council’s ‘managed’ production of condition scores
There are three primary schools in Arbroath relevant to this situation. Warddykes School is in the worst condition of any of the Arbroath schools; Timmergreens school is joined with Muirfied in the...
View ArticleOwn goal: Angus Council response to Education Secretary on Muirfield
Angus Council has submitted its response to the December 2011 request from the Scottish Government for specific information on its condition surveys of Muirfield school in Arbroath. Following a...
View ArticleLetter to Education Secretary from Ewan Smith, Muirfield Action Group
SUBJECT: PROPOSED CLOSURE OF MUIRFIELD AND TIMMERGREENS. RESPONSE TO ANGUS COUNCIL DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION NEIL LOGUE’S LETTER OF JANUARY 13Dear Mr Russell,I would like to officially respond to Angus...
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Muirfield Action Group lays bare derelict Angus Council case
The latest revelations on Angus Council’s presentation of its case to close Muirfield School have borne fruit. Ewan Smith of the Muirfield Action Group has today written to Jonathan Moore, Head of the...
View ArticleMuirfield: a victory for right
(Updated 1st February) Authoritative sources have told us that the Education Secretary’s judgment on Angus Council”s decision to close Muirfield and Timmergreens schools in Arbroath is an outright...
View ArticleAngus Council loses the plot: public to be excluded from discussion on taking...
It could be said that losing the plot is in this case at least a change from doing the plotting.The Dundee Courier today (6th February) reveals that it was told last night by an angry Angus councillor,...
View ArticlePublic out for Angus Council secret vote to take Education Secretary to...
There is more than one pantomime in town at the moment so max the popcorn and settle down for the ride.The big question is what does Angus Council know that the spectrum of legal opinion we have seen...
View ArticleSuccessful Schools campaigner, Ewan Smith, elected in Angus
Very good news from Arbroath, where schools campaigner – Muirfield Action Group – Ewan Smith has been elected to Angus Council.And the icing on the cake is that he has displaced Education Convener,...
View ArticleMuirfield school safe: Angus press say Arbroath superschool to be scrapped
This is also a story for Argyll, with the links formed by school campaigners through the Scottish Rural Schools Network between these two – and other – local authority areas.The Dundee Courier is...
View ArticleArbroath’s Councillor Ewan Smith now Angus Vice Convener of Education
News of Arbroath’s Muirfield Action Group champion has reached us from Angus.Councillor Ewan Smith has been appointed Vice Convener of Education at Angus Council.He is working with ‘a fantastic...
View ArticleNew administration at Angus drops Judicial Review against Education Secretary...
The new SNP administration at Angus Council has followed through on a manifesto promise to save money for the council budget by dropping the Judicial Review set in train by the previous...
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