Scottish Government has been defeated for the second time in three weeks over calls for more teachers to be hired to help schools cope with the coronavirus pandemic.
The defeat follows MSPs instructing the Scottish Government, in a non-binding vote last month, to recruit a minimum of 2,000 additional full-time teachers.A Conservative motion, expressing "disappointment" that ministers have not yet brought forward proposals to achieve this, and calling again for the extra teachers to be recruited, was passed by 59 votes to four, with 61 abstentions.Holyrood's opposition parties have accused ministers of failing to act and have again called for more to be done to hire more school staff to deal with the "crippling" workload.Opening the debate,.
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