Wendy campaigns with parents against downgrade of Renfrewshire Nurseries

Responding to the proposals, Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North said:

Youngsters at nursery schools across Renfrewshire will lose out under these plans being considered by the SNP-led Council.

Up to 15 teaching posts will go and, instead of spending the whole day with a fully qualified nursery teacher, children will only see a teacher when their school is visited by a member of a new roving team.

At springbank nursery parents told me how much their children with special needs  loved the snowdrop unit and if it wasn’t for the headteacher and her expertise in finding the right school for each child their youngsters wouldn’t  be doing half as well as he they now are. Now they will only see a teacher at all once in a blue moon. How’s that going to help their education?’

“In their election manifesto the SNP claimed they were ‘concerned at the removal of nursery teachers from nurseries in some council areas’ and wanted to ‘deliver access to a fully qualified nursery teacher for every nursery age child’.

“Yet now we see an SNP-led council trying to claim that ensuring this ‘access’ means scrapping jobs and spreading a handful of teachers thinly over hundreds of children; this is another example of a broken SNP promise. How anyone is supposed to trust them now is a mystery.”