A Stirling Council spokesperson said: “As a precautionary measure we will be carrying out checks across our school estate – covering PPP schools and others - from today (Monday) and continuing through this week while pupils are on holiday.”

The council's chief executive Paul Jukes said: “North Lanarkshire Council did not use the same building contractor as Edinburgh City Council.

“Initial inspections have been carried out and no issues have been reported.”

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East Lothian Council said in a statement: "Our six secondary schools, the Mercat Gait Centre and the Musselburgh Community Learning Centre have been refurbished under a PPP arrangement but this was not with the same construction company related to the affected City of Edinburgh Council schools.

"However, we are taking this issue extremely seriously and are in the process of seeking assurances from Infrastructure Managers Ltd who are responsible for ensuring our secondary schools and two community facilities are managed and maintained to a very safe standard. 

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"There are many condition surveys and works carried out in support of the properties being managed and maintained to a high standard by ourselves and Infrastructure Managers Ltd.

"We are liaising closely with the City of Edinburgh Council to determine the exact nature of the issues affecting their school closures.

"In respect of our Primary Schools they are not part of any PPP arrangement and we will continue to conduct appropriate condition surveys and associated works to ensure the safety of our school buildings."

A statement from Midlothian Council, in response to 17 schools being closed in Edinburgh, said: "We anticipate that parents, carers and local residents will be aware that some Edinburgh schools are currently closed while structural investigations are carried out.

"We confirm that none of our school buildings were built by the same contractor responsible for the Edinburgh PPI schools in question and we would like to take the opportunity to stress our continued commitment to ensuring the safety of everyone using school buildings in Midlothian."

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The council also say regular surveys have been carried out, including in the wake of a wall collapsing at Liberton High School in 2014 which killed 12-year-old pupil Keane Wallis-Bennett.

"Further inspections of our own estate also started in March 2016, in response to the situation in Edinburgh, and are due to finish on Tuesday 12 April. 

"A formal process is in place which allows immediate repairs to a school building, including isolating the area if there are health and safety concerns."

All schools in the region were checked following the death of 12-year-old pupil Keane Wallis-Bennett at Liberton High School in 2014.

A council spokesman said: "Following these inspections, some minor remedial works were carried out at the region’s three Public Private Partnership (PPP) schools – Berwickshire, Earlston and Eyemouth high schools – but no significant issues were identified.

"In addition, further inspections were carried out on 29 January this year at the Borders’ PPP schools following the damage to Oxgangs Primary School in Edinburgh caused by high winds.

"No areas of concerns at any of the sites were found during these inspections.

"In response to the decision on Friday 9 April around Edinburgh’s PFI schools, the Council will engage with the Scottish Government and Edinburgh City Council to seek further information. We will also work with our partner Scottish Borders Education Partnership (SBEP) to consider if further assessments are required.

"SBEP is committed to working in partnership with SBC to ensure the safety of the pupils and safe operation of its buildings.

"At this time, there is no information which indicates there are any issues at the Borders’ three PPP schools."

The closure of the schools, which are about 10 years old, was prompted after workers repairing serious structural issues at one city primary found "further serious defects" with the building on Friday.

Edinburgh Schools Partnership (ESP), which operates the schools, could not provide safety assurances.

The buildings were closed after safety concerns about their construction.

About 7,000 pupils have been affected while a series of safety inspections is being carried out.

BBC Scotland's Lisa Summers reports.

Safety checks will be carried out this week on schools built under Aberdeen city council's 3 Rs public-private financing project.

The council says structural checks are being carried out purely as a precaution on eight primary and two secondary schools.

They were built or refurbished by Danish firm Pihl and Scottish builders Robertson construction. Moray and Aberdeenshire councils both say their schools are unaffected.

The Scottish government's contribution to the new schools was through capital and revenue grant.

A council spokesman said: "There are no particular concerns. However, as a precautionary measure we will be carrying out inspections this week, before the schools re-open, at the six new schools built under the Sgoiltean Ùra project."

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Centres at Woodside in Aberdeen and Forres were built by Miller Construction under a public private partnership (PPP) in 2014.

Miller also built Aberdeen's Health and Care Village.

NHS Grampian said that, while the buildings were of a different design to schools, it had asked for assurances that similar defects were not inherent in any of the designs.

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An Aberdeen City Council spokesperson said: "We can confirm that Miller Construction was not involved in any of Aberdeen City Council's school build programme (the 3Rs Project), which involved Public Private Partnership (PPP).

"As a matter of precaution we have organised a series of structural tests on the schools, which were built or refurbished as part of the council's 3Rs Project.

"These tests will be carried out this week during the school holidays."

A Scottish Parliamentary spokeswoman said: “The Scottish Parliament has offered to assist Edinburgh Council in accommodating displaced schoolchildren.

"The Council is currently considering our offer.”

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The party's education spokesman Liam McArthur said: "There will be a time to look into the details of the PFI deal and we will need a full inquiry into how we got here.

“But our priority right now needs to be the safety of pupils and school staff. We also need to ensure those students preparing to take exams are not left in the dark.

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"There is a strong case for the SQA to look again at the timings of some of these papers.

"If exams need to be delayed then they should be and the exam boards need to work with schools to ensure that this is done with minimum disruption."  

The Scottish Conservative leader said: “It's unprecedented to have so many schools closed down at once, and at such a critical exam time for students. This demonstrates the seriousness of the situation.

"We made perfectly reasonable and constructive suggestions on how such situations could be prevented, but the SNP did nothing. Now councils are being forced to hastily close the school gates when many pupils are preparing to sit potentially life-changing exams.

"The SNP must explain why it ignored our calls, and say what it plans to do to stop a repeat across other school areas." 

The Scottish Conservatives say they asked three times over the last two years for schools to prove their buildings were up to scratch, as well as the quality of education provided, as part of the inspections regime.

It comes as 17 schools across Edinburgh have been forced to close amid safety fears. Scottish Conservative young people spokeswoman Liz Smith said: “I raised this issue in parliament two years ago on account of the concerns raised by parents and by some local authorities. At the time, the Scottish government paid lip service to my proposal, but in the intervening time it has washed its hands of it."

Moray Council’s director of education and Social Care, Laurence Findlay said: “Miller Construction, the contractors responsible for the schools built under the PPP initiative in Edinburgh, has not undertaken any work on behalf of the Moray Council.

"We have a five-year rolling programme of health and safety and building standards audits on our schools carried out by our quantity surveyor staff. We are confident that all our schools meetappropriate standards. 

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"However we have no complacency in relation to the standards of our school buildings and we continue to monitor our school estate very closely at all times.”  

• 17 schools closed in Edinburgh over construction concerns, affecting 7,000 pupils
• Some schools will not re-open this week
• Schools affected were built under the Public Private Partnership 1 project
• Councils across Scotland urged by Scottish government to check safety of school buildings
• Similar problems uncovered at Craigmount and Gracemount High Schools during initial surveys 

“Perth and Kinross Council regularly inspects and reviews all properties they are responsible for," said a spokesman for Perth & Kinross Council.

"None of the schools within Perth and Kinross were built by the contractors who built the schools in Edinburgh, however, for reassurance, we will conduct inspections of our schools where required in line with the request from the Scottish Government.”

A Dundee City Council spokesman also said: "Dundee City Council officers are making arrangements to see if appropriate actions are required."

A Scottish Parliamentary spokeswoman said: “The Scottish Parliament has offered to assist Edinburgh Council in accommodating displaced schoolchildren. The Council is currently considering our offer.”

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It follows the closure of 17 schools in Edinburgh, leaving 7,000 pupils unable to attend lessons.