All 7600 pupils affected by the closure of 17 schools in Edinburgh will be able to attend classes next week, it has been announced.

Arrangements had been made this week for all primary and special schools children, as well as many secondary pupils.

On Friday, the city council said Edinburgh Napier University's Craiglockhart campus and 16 temporary classrooms being installed at the Royal High School would be used to accommodate the remaining 390 pupils, all from Firrhill High School.

Arrangements have also been made for 740 nursery pupils affected, bringing the overall total to 8340 children.

Eric Munro, Napier's director of property and facilities, said: "We are pleased to step in to assist pupils who have been unable to return to school after the Easter break to try to help our neighbours and minimise disruption to children's education."

The council said efforts to identify alternative arrangements for affected pupils had been a "huge logistical exercise".

More than 70 buses have been contracted to shuttle children to their new classrooms, 61 alternative schools are being utilised to accommodate the affected pupils, and 655 teachers have been relocated.

The council said 30 outside bodies - including Hibernian and Heart of Midlothian Football Clubs and Edinburgh University - have also offered assistance.

The integration of new pupils into alternate schools is said to be going well.

Council leader Andrew Burns said: "I'm pleased we have now been able to put in place arrangements for all our pupils and I can assure parents and pupils that work will be taking place over the weekend and Monday to ensure the new arrangements are ready their arrival next week.

"It's great to hear about how well the integration of pupils sharing schools has been going and how the people of Edinburgh have responded."

The city council made the decision to shut 17 schools last Friday amid safety fears, causing thousands of children to miss out on lessons and practical exams to be postponed.

The schools were all built or refurbished under the same public private partnership (PPP) schemes around ten years ago and the partnership which manages them was unable to provide safety assurances, sparking the closures.

Mr Burns added: "We will provide parents with further information on individual school surveys once the full reports are received and assessed."

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