Schools
Closure Proposal
St Ann's Primary School
The Schools (Consultation)(Scotland) Act 2010
Proposed Closure of St Ann's Primary School, Mossblown and transfer of pupils to
St John's Primary School, Ayr
The first stage of the consultation on the proposed closure of St Ann’s Primary
School closed on Friday, 25th February 2011. In accordance with
the above Act, all responses received have been passed to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate
for Education (HMIe) who have 3 weeks to consider the educational impact of the
proposal and submit a report to the Council. Once this report is received, the Council
will prepare a Consultation Report which summaries the outcome of the consultation
process. This report will be made available to all consultees for further consideration
for a period of 3 weeks after which the report will be submitted to a future meeting
of the Council’s Leadership Panel for consideration and a decision.
If a decision is taken to close St Ann’s Primary School, the Council must notify
Scottish Ministers of this decision who have the power to issue a call-in notice
regarding a closure decision, but only where it appears to the Scottish Ministers
that the Council has failed in a significant regard to comply with the requirements
of the Act, or to take proper account of a material consideration relevant to its
decision to implement the proposal. Ministers have six weeks to decide whether or
not to issue a call-in notice.
During the first three weeks of the six week period, any person or group will be
able to make representation to the Scottish Ministers on whether a decision should
be called-in. Any relevant representations must be taken into account by the Scottish
Ministers when deciding whether or not to issue a call-in notice.
During this period the Council may not proceed further with the proposed closure.
Ministers may come to a decision sooner than six weeks (but not before the three
weeks for representation to be made to them has elapsed).
This web page will be updated on a regular basis during the consultation process.