16 March 2024: The City of Edinburgh Council ASN Mainstream Locality Meeting was held on 22 February 2024, and the NE/SE Locality Meeting was held on 28 February 2024.
Minutes and presentations from these meetings are available below.
Meeting minutes – ASN
Meeting minutes – NE/SE
30 November 2023: The ASN Mainstream Locality Meeting for City of Edinburgh Council and representatives from area Parent Councils, met on 16th November 2023.
A copy of the presentation made is available below, along with minutes from the meeting:
Digital Learning Update for Localities – opens as pdf
ASN Mainstream Locality meeting minutes – opens as pdf
The NW/SW Locality Meeting and the NE/SE Locality Meeting took place on November 21st & November 22nd 2023, respectively. The minutes for these meetings are available below:
NW/SW Locality Meeting minutes – downloads docx
NE/SE Locality Meeting minutes – downloads docx
9 October 2023: The NE/SE Parental Engagement Locality Meeting for City of Edinburgh Council and representatives from area Parent Councils, met on 27 September 2023. Copies of the presentations made are available below, along with minutes from the meeting:
Learning for Sustainability (opens as pdf)
Celebrating Success (opens as pdf)
NE/SE Locality Meeting minutes 27 September 2023 (opens as pdf)
Bonus item – you can also read the October edition of the Connect newsletter below:
15 June 2023: The National Discussion was co-convened by the Scottish Government and COSLA to establish a compelling and consensual vision for the future of Scottish education. It was established in response to Professor Ken Muir’s report “Putting Learners at the Centre” which recommended that a national discussion take place.
Putting Learners at the Centre
Consultations were carried out with more than a hundred organisations dedicated to supporting children and young people as well as education partners and parent and carer groups in designing the National Discussion.
The report based on the findings of this listening exercise was published on May 31 2023, with both a full report and a summary report available.
Our National Discussion on Education full report
Our National Dsiscussion summary report
A summary of the results was presented by Stephen Kelly at the Edinburgh Council’s Consultative Committee with Parents – see below:
23 May 2023: The Education Children and Families Committee (ECF) committee met on 27 April 2023.
ECF committee papers and webcast
The City of Edinburgh Council Consultative Committee with Parents (CCwP) met on 10 May 2023. The webcast is available to listen again.
22 February 2023: The JGHS Parent Council sent a letter to the City of Edinburgh Council to raise concerns about the draft budget of the Council that had made proposals to cut education services for 2023/24.
You can read a copy of the letter here:
JGHS Parent Council – budget proposals 2023
Note added 23 February 2023: The BBC News reported that at their meeting today, the City of Edinburgh Council agreed a budget that scrapped the proposed £5.5m cuts to school budgets, and the £370,000 cuts to speech and language therapy.
1 February 2023: Following discussion at the JGHS Parent Council meeting in October 2022, it was agreed that the Parent Council would seek to engage with the City of Edinburgh Council about future accommodation requirements at the School.
The Parent Council has now sent a letter to Edinburgh City Council outlining the our concerns and asking for meaningful dialogue with the Council to address the issues raised.
A copy of the letter is available at the link below:
James Gillespie’s High School Capacity Planning
If you have any comments to make about the issues raised, please send them to the Parent Council.
Updated 31 January 2023: You are invited to an online meeting from 6.30-7.30 pm on Wednesday 1 February 2023 to:
Please contact the City of Edinburgh Council Parental Engagement email account to book a space to attend the meeting, or send your views marked with for the attention of Marie Lyon.
23 January 2023: The City of Edinburgh Council is looking for views on proposals to expand the city’s network of 20mph streets, as well as lowering speed limits on roads that have limits of 40mph or more, which are mainly rural.
20mph speed limit proposals map
Whatever your views about our speed limit proposals, we want to hear from you.
Take part and complete the online survey which is available on the Council’s Consultation and Engagement Hub.
Click here to complete the survey
Please forward this email to any contacts that you feel would be interested in making their views heard on the proposals. The consultation is open and you can feedback until 8 February 2023.
22 January 2023: The City of Edinburgh Council’s Consultative Committee with Parents (CCwP) met on Thursday 19 January. The JGHS Paren Council was represented by our Chair, Sarah Scott.
The committee covered a number of topics, including
Links to the full recording of the webcast and the presentations made at the recent meeting are available below:
For more information about the CCwP please visit the Council’s website:
JGHS Parent Council 