Meeting of the Parliament 14 May 2025
As Angela Morgan said, what we are talking about is no longer “additional”; it is the classroom now, and the Government needs to wake up and address the real problems that young people are facing.
I move amendment S6M-17524.1, to insert at end:
“; notes that the Scottish Parliament’s Education, Children and Young People Committee found that the ‘overwhelming view’ of evidence was that ’the principle of the presumption of mainstreaming is laudable and should be supported’ but that the gap between the policy intention and its implementation is ‘intolerable’ and must be addressed; believes that parents and carers of young people with additional support needs (ASN) should not have to fight for everything that their child needs; regrets that, years on from the Morgan Review, there has not been enough progress; believes that teacher workload and the lack of availability of other support services and staff that young people with ASN need have contributed to a system that is overstretched, and calls on the Scottish Ministers to urgently bring forward a comprehensive strategy to increase the ASN and pastoral care workforce, restore access to vital support services, and create a specific ASN parents forum to feed directly into policy.”
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