Audit ScotlandScrutiny & reports · 23 Mar 2021Joint Auditor General/Accounts Commission audit: teacher FTE rose from 46,361 (2014) to 49,728 (2020). Of £80m Covid money for 1,400 teachers, councils had hired 1,423 by Dec 2020; government expected posts to be kept via retirements, which COSLA warned was risky.
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- Improving outcomes for young people through school education
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