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As a direct result of our continued investment, we now have the highest recorded level of pupil support assistants. In 2022, 307 additional pupil support assistants were recruited.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 November 2022
Once we have made all the changes—we are currently in consultation about them with our employees—we will have 33 employees in Scotland, so the change in head count will be one.
Last year, there was an announcement of £1 billion for the learning estate programme. Has that money materialised and is it enough to progress the programme?
It seems to provide that a public sector employee would be able to opt out of providing or assisting with any service on the ground that the employee held the belief that“marriage may only be between one man and one woman.”That suggests that a public sector employee could refuse to deal with correspondence or a request on any subject from a couple in a same-sex marriage.