Meeting of the Parliament 12 June 2025
I am happy to give Mr Choudhury an undertaking to meet him and his constituent. We know that, in the post-pandemic period, there are challenges in Scotland’s schools in relation to the recording of racism and other incidents. That speaks to wider work that we are undertaking on recording and monitoring, which we will publish details on before the end of this term.
The bullying and equalities module on the schools management information system—SEEMiS—has a specific recording category for incidents where race was a factor. SEEMiS also enables us to record where racism intersects with other forms of prejudice.
As I said, I am more than happy to engage with Mr Choudhury on that point, and I hope that he will take some heart from the updated guidance that we will publish before the end of this term.