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Council approves budget

Dumfries and Galloway council has approved its budget and will cut 52 learning support jobs, despite opposition to the move.

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New system will be "much improved" say D&G Council

Dumfries and Galloway Council says that the new system for learning support across the region will be much improved when compared to the current one.

The council plans on giving additional training to current teachers, who will then be in charge of looking after children with additional needs, as well as the rest of the class.

But the teachers' union is concerned that these proposals will only add to what they say is an already overstretched workload:

"The problem is finding the time when that's not normally done by learning support teachers, it's going to have to be done by classroom teachers who are not going to have the time to do all the other duties, particularly with the new courses.

"So we're going to be advising people to stick to their contractual hours."

– John Dennis. Educational Institute of Scotland, D&G Branch
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