Scotland’s Education Secretary has told Channel 4 News that a Ministry of Defence school in Perthshire was one of three cases used by Gillian Keegan, her counterpart in the UK government, to justify changing guidance on RAAC in England.
Jenny Gilruth says she was only informed about the incident, which happened in the spring, last Thursday.
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