Teachers concerned schools are not safe enough for return, survey shows

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.Some schools in South Lanarkshire could go more than a decade without a formal inspection.Education Scotland currently have “no plans” to restart inspecting schools this academic year after standing down that part of their operation following the UK-wide coronavirus lockdown in March.Carole McKenzie, head of education for school improvement, updated councillors during a meeting of the council’s

pest infestations have been logged by schools in Scotland in just three years. The enormous number of call-outs include a wide range of problems from moles in Dumfries and Galloway to maggots and even seagulls in West Dumbartonshire.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.North Lanarkshire Trade Union Council (NLTUC) has hit out over “serious concerns” workers have about non-compliance with Scottish Government guidelines on Covid-19.In a lengthy statement the organisation say it felt compelled to express concerns about adherence to, and enforcement of, guidelines to control the spread of coronavirus.The trade union council has also written to both North Lanarkshire

Airdrie,  Uddingston  Grammar and Stepps Primary School were the latest schools in Scotland to record positive cases in the last 24 hours. Yesterday a nursery in Fife was forced to close after a young child tested positive for Covid-19.

BBC has said.

Covid-19 - but that harm from missing school was a certainty.

harassment.Civil service boss Leslie Evans confirmed she raised the issue with Sturgeon in November 2017 after learning about media interest in an "incident" at Edinburgh Airport.It adds to growing questions about the government's timeline of events while the Scottish Government was drawing up a complaints policy designed to cover former ministers.Evans was appearing before MSPs on a special Holyrood committee set up to investigate the Scottish Government's botched handling of their inquiry into

blended learning if virus outbreaks meant it was required to keep pupils and teachers safe. But the First Minister stressed the Scottish Government's priority remained keeping children in class full-time and returning schools as close as possible to normal.

Scots teachers were left seeing double as NINE sets of twins prepared to start their first day of school. The children, all aged four and five, are set to start at primary schools across Inverclyde - with one school set to welcome three sets of the twins.

schools began to reopen yesterday – with many pupils, parents and teachers still expressing anxiety over Covid-19.Only Borders and some Shetland schools reopened to pupils, with the vast majority of Scots children heading back today.All pupils will return by next Tuesday. Fears have been raised about how well-prepared teachers are to deal with mitigating  the spread of the virus.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterScotland has recorded 52 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours.It brings the pandemic total for the nation to 19,079 cases.But there have been no coronavirus deaths announced by the Scottish Government since July 16.

schools across Scotland begin to return after lockdown there are major changes in place for parents, pupils and staff. While individual school rules, start days and times will vary from place to place, the Scottish Government have published a full list of guidelines which schools must follow, but what exactly are they? The Scottish Government say the guidance is "designed to support a safe return to school for all children, young people and staff".

return to school today. EIS general secretary Larry Flanagan said the union had been involved in drawing up guidelines and said the daytime hygiene regimes were “very robust”.

coronavirus transmission is lost, according to Scotland's national clinical director. Jason Leitch urged parents to be "cautious" but not "overly worried" about the return of pupils to class, which is to begin across the country from Tuesday.

missing Scots mum-of-two say they are growing 'increasingly concerned' for her welfare. Natasha Harrison vanished from Saltcoats in Ayrshire on Thursday sparking a massive hunt.