It can either issue a notice of proposal to de-register a service, which can take between four and six months, or, if there is immediate risk to residents, it can seek an urgent closure of the service.
It is about, among other things, how we, as a society, seek a kind of closure for certain chapters in our lives, and can sometimes feel incomplete if we don't get it.
But now there's a trend to seek a new type of closure — that of the spiritual.
Clwyd West AM Darren Millar said: "The decision to proceed to seek a further consultation on closure is an insult to pupils and parents and we will not give up the fight to secure the future of the school," he said.
The father of a soldier who died at Deepcut barracks 18 years ago hopes the decision to allow him to seek a new inquest will bring "closure".
That's a big concern — and a major reason to seek quick closure.
As Americans, we are culturally predisposed to seek rapid closure rather than answers, oftentimes more comfortable expressing outrage at a perceived injustice than we are willing to remedy it.
Ministers opposed the closures and the authority sought a judicial review, which found in its favour.
Ministers opposed the closures and the comhairle sought a judicial review.
Her rival Bernie Sanders is also thought likely to seek its closure.
