There has been growing concern about the number of staff and senior students told to be in schools tomorrow, much of it channelled through a petition that is calling for an immediate end to external assessment in Scotland for 2020.

There has been different advice in different parts of Scotland about students coming in to school to complete work, following Thursday’s announcement that this year’s Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) exams were being cancelled.

Today, we have looked at the most up-to-date and relevant advice on school for S4-6 students that we could find on each of the 32 Scottish local authorities’ websites (six still to be checked at 2.30pm). This is what they said:

Aberdeen (checked at 10.37am)

Aberdeenshire (10.38am)

Angus (12.17pm)

Argyll and Bute (1.25pm)

Clackmannanshire (12.20pm)

Dumfries and Galloway (1.22pm)

East Ayrshire (1.28pm)

East Dunbartonshire (1.38pm)

East Lothian (1.39pm)

East Renfrewshire (1.41pm)

Edinburgh (1.43pm)

Eilean Siar (Western Isles) (2pm)

Falkirk (1.44pm)

Fife (1.46pm)

“The Scottish Government has announced schools across the country to close from the end of the school day this Friday - we are working on contingency plans to be put in place to support our families and will announce these as soon as we can.”

Highland (2.02pm)

Inverclyde (2.06pm)

Midlothian (2.07pm)

North Ayrshire (2.13pm)

Orkney (2.17pm)

Perth and Kinross (2.20pm)

Renfrewshire (4.09pm)

Scottish Borders (4.05pm)

Shetland (4.04pm)

South Ayrshire (2.22pm)

South Lanarkshire (4.12pm)

Stirling (4.11pm)

West Dunbartonshire (2.35pm)

West Lothian (2.25pm)