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You could have an amazing teacher—my son does—who listens and helps you, but we also see a lot of families who have children whose teachers are not willing to do that.
Whether I speak to my general practitioner, my health visitor or my son's primary school teacher about debt help, that person should be able to say that free debt help is available in Scotland and point me in the right direction.4Scottish Parliament. (2022, May 12).
A parent quoted in the National Parent Forum of Scotland ("NPFS") submission said:
I am sad and angry that my son will no longer have the opportunities and benefits.
I heard from Julie Keegan, a national health service nurse in Glasgow who works in intensive care, who noticed that her newborn son Mason was hypothermic, listless and struggling to breathe.
Believe me when I say that being the waiter would be a promotion for us in terms of our positioning and decision-making ability around the table.I am listening to the youth unemployment agenda, and skills are a big issue for Scottish business.
I invite members to imagine being in this position: they have noticed that their son’s homework is repeatedly not marked by his teacher, so they express their concern.
I know of one sex offender who was in Peterhead prison whose parents were so convinced of their son’s innocence that, before the police arrived at a particular locus, they were cleaning the blood off the walls and repainting rooms.