Serious child protection allegations have been made by parents, who claim they were forced to remove their children with additional support needs from a Glasgow primary school. The Ferret has spoken to the parents of four children – aged six to nine – who attended St Charles’ Primary in Kelvinside in the last year and raised concerns. One child is still at the school. All have additional support needs including confirmed or suspected autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Many of the complaints revolve around what parents claim is inappropriate use of seclusion. Three parents claimed their child was shut in a small gym changing room, which they say is used for storage.
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I say incompetence because medical research findings going back to at least August 2020 indicate that this change could have been made much earlier.
Indeed, it was announced on 11 December that the period of self-isolation for Covid cases was to be reduced from 14 to 10 days and this change was based on similar research findings.
How many people unnecessarily self-isolated and how many further false positives were created before this 90-day rule was finally introduced?
Geoff Moore, Braeface Park, Alness.
Kids’ mental health needs big investment
As a coalition of leading providers of care and support we are concerned over a potential lost generation of vulnerable children and young people, whose mental health is being impacted even further by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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