A cleaner has successfully sued her boss for sexual harassment after he told her that her "booty" would "corrupt" him.
04.12.2022 - 08:23 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Scotland's teachers have been attacked thousands of times in the past year, the Sunday Mail can reveal. Council staff reported more than 22,000 incidents, with the majority of attacks against teachers and classroom assistants.
The stark new figures from trade union Unison come as teachers walked out last week at Bannerman High School in Glasgow, citing violence by pupils. Staff at a school in Aberdeen voted to strike due to intimidation and violence.
Union leaders are now calling for new legislation and protection for staff. Sylvia Haughney, a pupil support worker of 24 years and the union’s senior education health and safety rep in Glasgow, said classroom staff are not given enough training on how to cope with violent children.
She said: “Members have reported incidents from swearing, spitting and kicking to sexual assault, being punched, even getting their jaw broken. When people are routinely abused at work, they absorb a lot of that and not all of it is being reported.
“It’s now at crisis point. In Scotland, we’ve had a move towards inclusion in schools, so schools which once catered for pupils with additional needs are being closed down and those pupils are being integrated into mainstream schools.
"Staff within those settings are not being given adequate training on how to cope if a child who has severe behavioural problems kicks off. Classroom support workers are often the ones who have to sit with disruptive or violent pupils and they aren’t aware of the child’s background or if there has been a risk assessment done with that child if they are known to have difficulties.
“Because there is a ‘no hands-on’ policy, in the most extreme cases a whole classroom of kids has to be evacuated to leave the one child who has
A cleaner has successfully sued her boss for sexual harassment after he told her that her "booty" would "corrupt" him.
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Teachers at a Glasgow school taking further strike action for the rest of the week over the alleged violent and abusive behaviour of students. Staff at Bannerman High in Baillieston are staging a walk out on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week, with an additional eight days of strikes to take place in December.