Jenny Gilruth has branded a spate of violent incidents in Scotland's schools "unacceptable", while insisting that such incidents were "outwith the norm".
The education secretary told the NASUWT Scotland conference in Aberdeen that the cost-of-living crisis and the continuing after-effects of the coronavirus pandemic were having an impact on the wellbeing of children and young people. However, she told the union event this did not excuse pupils behaving unacceptably.
The Daily Record's Our Kids...Our Future campaign has been highlighting violence in Scotland's schools since February this year, amid a growing trend of bullies filming their classmates being tormented and sharing the videos on social media. Unions have raised concerns about the growing violence.
