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2026 manifesto source record

Labour

Scottish Labour

7 relevant source extracts currently included in the review, each linked to its PDF page.

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What the manifesto says

1,500 more classroom assistants to help teachers manage behaviour and give pupils more 1:1 support.

Costing page 179 instead labels the 1,500 as teachers; unresolved source inconsistency.

The costing chapter says something else

Spend £630m on increasing classroom teachers by 1,500 and recruiting 2,000 education recovery teachers.

The costing chapter labels the 1,500 as classroom teachers. The education chapter labels them classroom assistants. This is an unresolved source inconsistency, not a delivery verdict.

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Scope of this review

These extracts were checked against the source PDF. The collection is focused on teacher employment and closely related staffing policy and should not be read as a complete summary of the party's education manifesto. Classification and campaign interpretation remain separate from the quoted source wording.

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John Swinney: cut to teacher training places ‘probably’ went too far

The education secretary said the 2011 intake cut, made because of teacher unemployment, had probably over-corrected.

Holyrood · 1 June 2017 · Context

John Swinney concedes teacher training cuts ‘went too far’

Intake fell from 3,857 to 2,307. Swinney told Daniel Johnson the cut had probably gone too far.

The Herald · 1 June 2017 · Context

Swinney welcomes teacher numbers boost

The first rise in teacher numbers for years. Opposition parties still cited the decade-long fall from 2007.

BBC Scotland · 13 December 2016 · Context

Wendy Alexander MSP fears over teaching graduate jobs

16.1% of new teachers were in a full-time permanent post, from 60.3% in 2004/05. A quarter had no teaching job.

Daily Record · 3 January 2011 · Context

Scottish teacher numbers fall to record low

One in six newly qualified teachers had a full-time permanent job, down from 64% five years earlier. EIS called it creeping casualisation.

BBC Scotland · 8 December 2010 · Context

Pathway to permanent jobs blocked

Unions said councils broke continuous service so supply teachers could not claim permanency.

Tes · 4 September 2009 · Context

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