Chamber and committees

As indicated in the answer to question S5W-32879 on 9 November 2020, responsibility for arranging learning for children who have to self-isolate or quarantine rests with the child’s school and the relevant local authority.

To enhance the options available to schools, Scottish Government and Education Scotland are working with the Association of Directors of Education to deliver the e-learning national partnership initiative. This seeks to widen access to live lessons, recorded lessons and digital learning and teaching resources. The initiative comprises a range of projects including the expansion of e-Sgoil's remote learning offer, as well as the West Partnership's online school which is providing teacher led lessons online which can be accessed at a time and place of the learner's choosing. The aim of the partnership is to ensure that different areas collaborate in order to provide access to materials across regions. Further detail on the e-learning partnership is available at:

https://education.gov.scot/education-scotland/news-and-events/new-partnership-offer-to-improve-availability-of-online-learning-across-scotland/

Education Scotland's new Scotland Learns mini site provides additional learning at home activities and ideas to complement any online learning and offline learning provided by the school. Further information is available at:

https://education.gov.scot/improvement/scotland-learns/

Further advice and support to parents, as well as learning activities for younger pupils. is provided via the Parent Club website, which now has a number of dedicated pages on how to support children’s learning during Covid-19.

All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx