Inquiry Told Schools Lost Track of ‘A Great Many’ Pupils in Lockdown

Schools did not know where “a great many” young people were or what they were doing during the era of lockdowns and restrictions, the Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry heard. Teachers and support staff were far less able to perform their duty of “social care,” in which they identified pupils experiencing problems outside school and put support in place when children were not attending class in person, the Edinburgh-based probe was told on Wednesday. Graham Hutton, general secretary of School Leaders Scotland (SLS), told the inquiry, “One of the advantages of the school was that young people came to school, they were in the building.”...