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Donald Turvill

Edinburgh children failed by teachers at council home caught up in restraint scandal

An Edinburgh council-run children's home where staff 'assaulted young people' and used inappropriate restraints has been reprimanded again - this time by an education watchdog which rated its education services 'weak'.

Edinburgh Secure Services was hit by scandal last year after an investigation uncovered "illegality, maladministration and injustice" in the care accommodation for young people at Howdenhall and St Katharine's Special School.

In September - five months on from publication of the damning internal review which found significant failings "at all levels of management" in the council - the home was visited by Government inspectors.

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