East Lothian education network

12 November 2025

An East Lothian Council spokesperson said: "Schools have adapted well to the current situation with creative approaches in classrooms and business continuity measures working well. Re-enabling chromebooks has been successful in supporting access to many of the systems that learners use, including Google Classroom. In the meantime, work continues as a priority to investigate the cause of the anti-virus alerts. There remains no indication our systems have been compromised."

11 November 2025

An East Lothian Council spokesperson said: "We have taken the precautionary step of taking our schools temporarily offline while we investigate a number of antivirus alerts on our education network. Work to determine the cause continues and we are liaising with school teams and our suppliers to minimise disruption. Chromebook access has since been re-enabled to education sites. There is no indication our systems have been compromised.”

• the decision to take schools offline was made on Monday 10 November at 1332
• chromebooks have since been re-enabled and will have internet access to education sites including google classroom
• East Lothian Council has seven secondaries and 36 primary schools
• the education network is separate to the council's corporate network