Religious leaders no longer have the right to vote on education matters across Edinburgh.
Edinburgh Council is following in the footsteps of the Highlands, Orkney and Fife which all earlier this year removed voting rights historically held by religious representatives on education.
By law, three religious representatives must be included among the members of education committees across Scottish councils.
Edinburgh Council argued that decisions on education should be taken by those who are democratically elected and cited a legal opinion advising that it was within the law for the council “to either confer or remove such voting rights”.
Former Church of Scotland Moderator Derek Browning told Edinburgh Live that the vote gave the impression of “a thin end of a wedge whose aim is to remove representation altogether”.
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