Schools across Nottinghamshire will not be used as polling stations in the upcoming local elections to ensure no more classroom time is lost.
Dozens of schools across the county are regularly used as designated polling stations on election day, forcing the site to close for the day.
However, following calls for changes to the system for the May 6 elections, local authorities across the county have revealed alternative polling stations across their area.
It follows months of lost contact time for pupils nationwide due to various Covid lockdowns, with schools only reopening to all students on March 8.
Central Government, headteachers and Nottinghamshire County Council have led the calls for changes to school polling stations, ahead of the council's election and the vote for police and crime commissioner.
Mansfield usually uses 11 primary schools as polling stations for elections, however, all sites have been found alternative venues.
Hayley Barsby, Mansfield's deputy returning officer and council chief executive said: "This action recognises the impact on students and parents of a further day of school closures and home schooling in a year in which education has been severely affected due to the various national lockdowns.
"We will look again at which premises we use as polling stations following the review of ward boundaries by the Boundary Commission later this year."
The decision across Nottinghamshire also takes into account the unavailability of some previously used polling places, which have also been moved to nearby locations.
Below is a list of all the changes to polling stations across various areas Nottinghamshire. Broxtowe and Newark and Sherwood councils did not respond to our request.
Ashfield
- Abbey Hill Primary School moves to The Summit Centre
- The Changing Rooms Building (off Bluebell Wood Way) moves to a Mobile Unit in the same grounds
- Mapplewells Primary School moves to The Changing Rooms Building (off Bluebell Wood Way) and The Grosvenor Rooms
- Holy Cross Primary School moves to the Interchange (Youth and Community Centre)
- Bestwood Miners Welfare moves to Bestwood Community Centre
- Forest Street Baptist Schoolroom moves to St Thomas`s Church Hall
- St Thomas's Church Hall moves to Forest Street Baptist Schoolroom
- Council Offices at Kirkby in Ashfield moves to the Urban Social Club
- Kingsway Pub moves to Kingsway Cemetery Chapel
- Stanton Hill Boys Brigade moves to Brand Court
- Portland College moves to a Mobile Unit at Fountaindale School
- The Beeches Community Centre moves to Skegby and Stanton Hill Library
- Staff of Life Pub moves to The Grosvenor Rooms
- White Lion Pub moves to Mobile Unit on Woodnook Recreation Ground
Bassetlaw
Worksop Tesco Temporary Polling Station moves to the Balmoral Centre
Kingfisher Walk Temporary Polling Station moves to Roman's Rest
Clumber Park Inn Car Park Temporary Polling Station, Retford, moves to Clumber Inn
Gilbert Avenue Temporary Polling Station, Tuxford moves to Trent Villages Children's Centre, Tuxford
Prospect Hill School moves to St Joseph's Social Club
Norbridge Academy moves to Valley Children's Centre
Gamston School moves to Markham Moor Inn
Venetian Room, Town Hall, Worksop, moves to Scout Centre, Slack Walk
North Worksop Children's Centre moves to Three Legged Stool
Centre for Sport & Learning, Manton moves to Children’s Centre, Manton
Salvation Army Hall, Newcastle Avenue moves to The Crossing
Kilton Forest Community Centre, Larwood, moves to Kilton Forest Golf Club
Buttermarket, Retford Town Hall moves to Albert Hall
Hayton Village Hall moves to Clayworth Memorial Hall
Scofton moves to Manton Sports Club
Woodbeck Community Centre moves to Rampton Village Hall
Gedling
Arnbrook Primary School moves to Arnbook Children’s Centre
Stanhope Primary School moves to Phoenix Farm Methodist Church
Mansfield
- Warsop Methodist Church moves to Black Market Venue
- Church Vale Primary School moves to Tudor Barn
- Nettleworth Infant School, Mansfield Woodhouse, moves to Mansfield Woodhouse Seventh Day Adventist Church
- St Edmund's Church of England School, Mansfield Woodhouse moves to Turner Community Hall, Mansfield Woodhouse
- Heatherley Primary School moves to Flint Avenue Community Centre
- John T Rice Infant and Nursery School, Forest Town, moves to The Garrage Young People’s Centre, Forest Town
- St Patrick's Catholic Primary School moves to the The Sherwoods Community Hall
- Tuxford Court Meeting Room moves to Trowell Court Hall
- Mansfield Primary Academy moves to Henley Hall and St Lawrence’s Church Hall
- Asquith Primary School moves to the Calvary Church
- Berry Hill Primary moves to a Portacabin on King George V Park and to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Sutton Road Primary School moves to the Bold Forester
- The Flying High Academy moves to Brookside Hall
Rushcliffe
- Langar C of E Primary School moves to Langar Church
- Gamston Community Hall moves to mobile Station at Goose at Gamston car park
- Mobile station at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Stanhome Square moves to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
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