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Professor John Robertson OBA
From Pupils with additional support needs and additional support for learning: FOI release published today, the above table.1, 2
The above data represent a 26 % increase in pupil support assistants and an194 % increase in behaviour support staff since 2018.
Scotland’s media? The Times Education Supplement, in 2024, has:
Just 137 behaviour support staff working in Scottish schools – Official figures also indicate the number of these specialists is falling, although numbers of some other non-teaching roles are growing
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Sources:
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
That ‘just’ at the start of the TESS piece is an example of ‘framing’. The author is signalling – ‘this is bad. It is about Scotland, so it has to be bad.’
Pobably, it has been taken from a teacher union or campaigning organisation press release.
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