MORE than £52,000 worth of damage has been caused to schools across Glasgow in just 10 months, it has been revealed.

A total of 241 vandal repairs have been reported to Glasgow City Council by staff at nurseries, primaries, and secondary schools.

The information, obtained by a Freedom of Information request, only included vandalism incidents within secondary schools for the first three months of the year.

Meanwhile, information on nurseries and secondaries was provided from January to October.

August recorded the most vandalism incidents, with 48 repairs carried out.

The Glasgow Times previously told how mindless louts smashed the windows of St Catherine’s Primary in Barmulloch in August, while guttering pipes were also torn off.

It has since been revealed that it cost £599.13 to repair the guttering and £352.22 to board windows up until they were replaced.

In January, when there was a total of 13 repairs made across the city, we reported that heartless yobs trashed St Maria Goretti Primary, in Cranhill, during a sickening late-night raid.

The vandals threw paint onto the walls and trashed displays made by pupils.

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Children were left heartbroken. It cost the council £734.84 to fix the damage following the attack.

In other incidents, the school had to have windows and doors boarded up and replaced.

Meanwhile, twenty-two broken windows throughout stairwells at Sacred Heart Primary, Bridgeton, cost the council £4582.30 of the grand total £52,539.40 worth of repairs across Glasgow.

A further five broken windows around the school cost £1622.67 to be fixed. And a further £3,074.23 was spent boarding up and replacing more damaged windows.

Other incidents included vandalism to a boy’s toilet cubicle in Bunsgoil Glasgow Gaelic Primary which cost £347.98, £398.40 worth of repairs to a buckled door after an attempted break-in at Carntyne Primary School, and vandalised panels at Craigton Primary’s football pitch, which cost £211.34 to fix.

Graffiti was painted over at Castleton Primary, Ardsgoil Glasgow Gaelic Secondary and St Francis of Assisi Primary.

Councillor Chris Cunningham, city convener for education, skills and early years said: “We know that mindless vandals will not care about the impact of their actions on not just the financial cost to the council but also the inevitable disruption to learning and teaching in the school or nursery targeted – it is often in their own local communities as well.

“What has been equally distressing over the last 18 months of the pandemic was the schools and nurseries that were targeted during the school closures and in some cases, sustained attacks over a period of months.

“We will continue to work with our partners and the local communities to use a variety of measures to try and reduce vandalism of the school estate across the city and in turn minimise the disruption to our school communities and access to facilities.”