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Meeting of the Parliament 04 June 2025

04 Jun 2025 · S6 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Portfolio Question Time
Nursery Closures (Aberdeenshire Council)
Education and Skills
Don-Innes, Natalie SNP Renfrewshire North and West Watch on SPTV

As I have explained previously, it is the statutory responsibility of local authorities to manage their early learning and childcare estate in consultation with local communities to which they are democratically accountable. Although it would not be appropriate for me to comment on an individual council’s processes, I can confirm that senior officials have written to Aberdeenshire Council to highlight the requirements of statutory guidance in relation to the mothballing of local authority services.

I understand that Mr Burnett is keen to take up my previous offer of a meeting, which I believe is now in the process of being arranged, and I look forward to it.

In the same item of business

5. Alexander Burnett (Aberdeenshire West) (Con) Con
To ask the Scottish Government when the children’s minister last met with Aberdeenshire Council to discuss nursery closures. (S6O-04756)
The Minister for Children, Young People and The Promise (Natalie Don-Innes) SNP
As I have explained previously, it is the statutory responsibility of local authorities to manage their early learning and childcare estate in consultation w...
Alexander Burnett Con
I am glad that the minister is aware of the proposal to mothball four nurseries in Aberdeenshire. A full council meeting is taking place next Monday to make ...
Natalie Don-Innes SNP
I can confirm, as I said in my previous answer, that senior Scottish Government officials wrote to the council’s director of education on 29 May to draw the ...
Rona Mackay (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (SNP) SNP
The minister will be aware that the Tories run Aberdeenshire Council, so Mr Burnett should raise the issue with his Tory colleagues. The Scottish Government ...
Natalie Don-Innes SNP
Ms Mackay raises an extremely important point. In relation to the challenges, the addressing depopulation action plan sets out the Scottish Government’s stra...