Record View says lollipop staff deserve to be valued and properly funded.
It is a massive concern that the number of lollipop staff in Scotland has fallen dramatically in the last 15 years.
For East Dunbartonshire to have less than a third of the lollipop staff than it had in 2007 is a disgrace. But the Scottish-wide stats are also worrying. The Scottish Government should step in to make sure that local authorities have enough money to employ an adequate number of staff. As GMB Scotland organiser Sean Baillie said: “Nothing could be more important than ensuring the safety of our children”.
We’ve already heard countless times how wards are at breaking point but the scale of the unsafe staffing will shock people. Highly trained employees have complained more than 21,000 times over a five-year-period.
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