Union calls for urgent action to tackle classroom violence in Scottish schools

Teachers’ leaders have demanded “urgent action” from Scottish ministers to tackle classroom violence, telling the education secretary it is an “increasing health and safety risk” for staff. Andrea Bradley, the general secretary of the EIS teaching union, told Jenny Gilruth, that additional resources were needed to tackle the problem. “Behaviour summits are well and good, the opportunities to talk are really important,” Bradley said after Gilruth, the education minister, held a meeting on classroom violence.