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Councils across Scotland are checking their school buildings are safe - after seventeen were closed in Edinburgh.
Councils across Scotland are checking their school buildings are safe - after seventeen were closed in Edinburgh.
It follows concern about whether they're structurally sound after a wall collapsed at Oxgangs Primary in a storm back in January.
They were built under a Public Private Partnership deal.
Top architect Alan Dunlop - a visiting professor at Robert Gordon University - has publically criticised these contracts - arguing that they lead to the cutting of corners when designing buildings.
We spoke to him earlier: