The return of five privately built Falkirk high schools to council control should help it make "substantial savings", officials have said, as they revealed contracts for the schools are now costing the council more than £11 million every year.
Members of Falkirk Council's education, children and young people executive heard on Tuesday that plans are progressing well to bring the five schools - Bo'ness, Braes, Graeme, Larbert and Old Carrongrange - back into council ownership.
As Falkirk Council was the first in Scotland to use this type of private and public partnership to build new schools, it will also be the first to end the contract.
