Larry Flanagan: Last News

Payouts to teachers injured while working in Scottish schools fell by more than £500,000 this year, figures reveal.

Scotland’s largest teaching union is set to hold its AGM in Dundee this week.

Lecturing staff at a busy college in West Lothian have held a third day of strike action.

Lecturers at the Barony College campus at Parkgate went on strike for the second time in a week on Wednesday.

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close schools in Scotland again if that's what it takes to stop the spread of Covid, a leading teaching union has warned. It comes as Holyrood ministers prepare to publish a framework later this week which will better explain the criteria for introducing local lockdowns in the future.

Mum of Cameron House victim begs for answers to end '1000 days of torture'This followed a letter from teachers’ union EIS directly to Nicola Sturgeon which spoke about “clear inconsistencies” in Covid-19 safety policy within schools and outside.General Secretary Larry Flanagan raised concerns about people meeting outside schools in large groups.He said: “This includes parents gathering at school gates and young people meeting friends without following the guidance on physical distancing.“People are running the risk of spreading the virus to each other, their families and their loved ones.”During a Scottish Government daily briefing last week, addressing the public, Professor Leitch, said: “We are also concerned about people meeting up

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.

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”.

Weekend press reports served as a timely reminder to parents that when it comes to back to school plans uncertainty rules, and the decision will go to the wire.West Lothian has a contingency plan that was agreed in June for blended learning and a partial return to school by pupils on August 12.And, as Stephen McCabe, joint chair of the Scottish Government education recovery group warned in press reports at the weekend, a full to education return is not “a given”.That phrase was echoed by Larry Flanagan, the General Secretary of the EIS, Scotland’s largest teaching union on Monday.He said: “It should be noted that the advice is contingent upon continued suppression of the virus.“ That shouldn’t be taken as a given.”If required, West

Plans to bring children back to school are being drawn up by South Lanarkshire Council - but they won't be implemented any time soon.

A trade union leader has warned reopening schools in August is only an “ambition” due to social distancing.

full time schooling was not agreed by a special Government group on education. Larry Flanagan, general secretary of the EIS, said Education Secretary John Swinney had instead made a “political announcement”.