It could be the end of the week before a clearer idea of how long the disruption in Edinburgh's schools will last, according to the council's leader.

Thousands of children in the city will go back to class on Tuesday after an extra week off but most of them are not returning to their usual schools.

All 7600 pupils affected by the closure of 17 schools in Edinburgh will be able to attend classes.

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.

Despite pupils returning to class on Tuesday, council leader Andrew Burns has told STV News it could take until the end of the week until they know how long the disruption will last.

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. The council made the decision to shut 17 schools on Friday April 8 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.

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