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Council Leaders Extremely Disappointed At Proposed Interventions Which Add Insult To Injury

At a meeting in Edinburgh on Friday 27th January 2023 Scotland's Council Leaders expressed their extreme disappointment that the Cabinet had decided to make interventions in relation to minimum learning hours and pupil teacher ratio. Council Leaders were clear that given the Scottish Budget for next year, there is a crisis in Local Government funding like never before and the reaction from Scottish Government so far does not reflect the crisis councils, and our communities are facing. [Read Full Article]