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SNP ministers called out over 'shocking' lack of investment in school ventilation systems
09.01.2022 - 16:11 / dailyrecord.co.uk
SNP ministers have been accused of a "shocking" lack of investment when it comes to ventilation systems in Scottish schools.
Pupils and teachers face sitting in chilly classrooms this winter with windows and doors left open in a bid to restrict the circulation of coronavirus.
Nuzhat Uthmani, of Scottish Teachers for Positive Change and Wellbeing (STPCW), said it was “unfathomable” that children were being asked to wear more layers to school for a second winter in a row.
She hit out at the Scottish Government for failing to invest in air filtration units in schools to help keep them safer from covid spreading further.
"It is unacceptable at this point in the pandemic for schools to have to tell their young people at the start of term to dress warmly," she told the BBC.
"A number of schools have had to say that because windows and doors need to be kept open because we have nothing else."
She added: “All we have is windows and doors to open, and it’s very cold.
“It seems unfathomable that schools are having to ask children to dress warmly as opposed to the Government putting things in place.”
The Record reported last week how parents and teachers were concerned about a lack of ventilation in Scottish schools.
Air flow in the majority of schools is still being regulated by simply opening windows or doors despite plummeting temperatures outside - a position branded "absurd".
Uthmani, a member of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), said the STPCW have written a letter to Holyrood ministers and opposition MSPs raising their concerns about what little has been done to install better ventilation systems.
She said the group has had little response and “none at all from any government ministers”.
"We’ve had summer 2020, we’ve
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