Edinburgh Council may start running its own holiday hubs again as concerns have been raised over the service losing capacity.

Up to this spring, the council-run Braidburn holiday hub provided a number of spaces for additional support needs (ASN) pupils along with other sites run by third-sector partners.

But in a shock decision at the start of this year council officials closed the centre without approval by councillors, seeing the programme lose 78 spaces overall since last year.

And since 2023/2024, the programme has lost almost 500 spaces from its total then of 1,720.

Now, at Tuesday’s education committee meeting, councillors voted to have officers put together a feasibility study for the council to again start running holiday hub services.

SNP councillor Euan Hyslop, who pushe

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