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Hundreds of teachers to be recruited for Scottish schools

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teachers to help class rooms cope with extra burdens caused by coronavirus. Education Secretary John Swinney confirmed he has "ring-fenced" half of an earlier emergency fund for the recruitment drive.

But a parents' pressure group, and opposition MSPs at Holyrood, warned the plan should have been set out earlier. Parents are now only three weeks from potentially sending children back to school.

Swinney is also still under pressure to make a decision on whether schools will be full-time from August 11 or if he will fall back to the "blended" part-time model.In an update to parliament, Swinney insisted the virus is being suppressed but no decision will be finalised until Nicola Sturgeon's top team of ministers meets on July 29.

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