Educators need to win the 'hearts and minds' of young people to bring them back into classrooms, a councillor has said.
Attendance rates at primary and secondary schools across Midlothian have fallen post Covid with more than one in ten secondary pupils not in class.
And a meeting of Midlothian Council's cabinet was told incidents of 'distress and dysregulated behaviour' had made the last year challenging for teachers and staff.
