Question reference: S6W-25814
- Date lodged: 27 February 2024
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Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 11 March 2024
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-24966 by Jenny Gilruth on 21 February 2024, whether it has undertaken any work to establish whether any local authorities used the £145 million allocated for the protection of teacher numbers for any other purposes.
Answer
As indicated in the answer to S6W- 24966, we asked the local authorities that did not maintain teacher numbers in the 2023 teacher census to provide an explanation for these reductions and any mitigating circumstances they wished to put forward.