Moray Council schools "not affected" by PPP structural safety concerns
Moray Council says its schools are not affected by PPP structural safety concerns.
Edinburgh school pupils are being told to stay at home over concerns about the structural safety of a number of buildings.
The measure's affecting 9,000 students at 17-schools in the capital.
Officials say serious issues have been discovered following storm damage to one primary in January.
All the buildings were constructed under the same public private partnership deal.
Moray Council has told MFR News that the contractor which built the schools in the central belt, has not carried out any work for the local authority.
The council says it's "confident" that its schools "meet appropriate standards".
Moray Council’s director of education and Social Care, Laurence Findlay, told MFR News: “Miller Construction, the contractors responsible for the schools built under the PPP initiative in Edinburgh, has not undertaken any work on behalf of the Moray Council.
"We have a five-year rolling programme of health and safety and building standards audits on our schools carried out by our quantity surveyor staff.
"We are confident that all our schools meet appropriate standards.
"However we have no complacency in relation to the standards of our school buildings and we continue to monitor our school estate very closely at all times."
Meanwhile Highland Council is meeting about the issue, so we have not yet heard back from it.