Whats this all about

Hi

My name is Lynn Scott I am one of the administrators on this site and im here to tell you a little about what the site is all about.

In January 2009 Glasgow City Council announced its intention to close 25 schools and nurseries across the city one of which was our local school Barmulloch Primary. Parents across the 25 schools and nurseries then grouped together to form a united front against the council in a bid to stop closures that made no real sense, parents protested gained some of the largest petitions against school closures in Glasgow within days of the announcement and staged sit ins at some of the schools involved. We fought long and hard parents gave up a lot of time and effort to try to make Glasgow City Council see sense but unfortunatley on the 23rd April 2009 a decision was made to close 23 out of the 25 schools and nurseries.

Our fight was not over in fact it is far from over we are still challenging the councils decisions by seeking legal advice on the flawed consultations and fighting for new schools to replace the ones taken away. We are looking for laws to be changed to stop this type of situation happening again to so many of our children across the city and indeed Scotland.

We have created this website to help others through similar situations and share what information we can that helped us in our fight and we hope you will join us by leaving messages of support and questions post pictures of your own campaigns against school closures in your area and chat at our regulated chat times which will be announced weekly with other parents to share ideas on how to campaign against such unlawful acts ever happening to our great city and country again.

Be strong we can win if we stick together.

Lynn Scott
School Closures Campaginer