Labour bids to stop attainment cash cuts

LABOUR is calling on the Scottish Government to “put their rhetoric into action” with votes on key issues in education and social care.

Scottish Labour will today press for plans to cut funding in poorer communities to be dropped to help close the attainment gap .

Nine council areas including Glasgow, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire and West Dunbartonshire, are facing cuts to special funding they have received for the last seven years, amounting to a total cumulative loss of £63 million over the course of four years.

The money is to be spread across the whole of Scotland, but Scottish Labour has claimed that doing so will “force children in the poorest communities to pay the cost of services for children across the country”.

Jackie Baillie, the party’s deputy leader, said: “Cuts to attainment funding authorities are a gross betrayal of the children who need their help, an unthinkable decision while we struggle to recover from the devastation of the pandemic that has hurt those children hardest of all.

“But it is not too late for the Snp-green Government to put a stop to their dangerous complacency and reckless