Our teachers are key to keeping the country going! School is the biggest childcare service I know. Who has been looking after the children of Doctors, nurses, gp's, emergency services, and other essential services during the pandemic? TEACHERS have! Now all children are returning to school our teachers are going to once again be put at significantly higher risk of catching covid -19. Whilst children do not generally develop life threatening illness from covid-19, they can still transmit the virus and teachers being in close proximity are going to be at more risk than ever! Especially the early years and primary school teachers. If large numbers of teachers get ill with covid who is there to look after the children of our key workers? If 1 or 2 teachers in a small school, (like my own children go to) are struck down with covid its not only the poor teacher that suffers and they families- our children do to! Teachers cannot be furloghed, they can not work from home, they have no choice but go to their place of work to care for our children! So please Boris do what's right and vaccinate our precious irreplaceable teachers ❤!

Many of us took extensive study leave and committed personal funds to undertake DTMH qualifying courses. We are now trying to plan our lives as we, hopefully, head towards the end of the Covid pandemic and so we deserve to know what the RCP plans. There are now 2 cohorts of students from each course who are living with this uncertainty. Having put in extensive work it is demoralising and frustrating that the RCP will not enter into communication with us about its plans. Even knowing that there are no plans to hold an exam in 2021 would be more helpful than our current state of limbo. Many of us, including me, are working out our plans for the year, and any proposed exam date will hav a signficant impact on this.

Students are paying full fees for a compromised quality of teaching and learning. Students didn't have chance to enjoy the experience of University life. Online teaching is not like the actual learning experience of University, yet students are having to pay full fees. This is not fair at all. Also, students have to pay rent for their accommodation when there is no need to be physically present on campus!

It is important for two reasons: 1. The ease of sourcing uniform which will not always be available online 2. Will give time for schools to prepare their second hand shops, especially for parents under financial pressure

Since March 2020 children in Scotland have spent the equivalent of 6 months home schooling. In the majority of public sector scenarios this has involved little or no direct teacher contact. Children need and benefit from being 'taught' by teachers. Reading and self guiding through work is not an adequate substitute. Our Curriculum for Excellence promises an education which considers every child and their needs individually. This cannot and has not been delivered over 2020/ 2021. Not all children can learn in the same way. Self guided material is impossible for the less able particularly when children's home circumstances are so varied. There is no guarantee of parental support. The gulf between the have's and have not's grows ever wider. The negative impact on our children's mental health over these months is unimaginable. Do we want to ramp this pressure up a level by returning them to school under the cloud of needing to catch up on all the education missed? We need to acknowledge how much we value 'teaching' and allow children in Scotland to move forwards together by repeating the last academic year.

Just check your social media feed - it won't take long.......... Fake news is becoming a regular occurrence in everyone's social media feeds. However, youngsters in the UK are the first generation to be exposed to this radical fake news whilst being at their most impressionable age. According to the National Literacy Trust (2021a) only 2% of children and young people in the UK have the critical literacy skills they need to tell if a news story is real or fake. Moreover half (49.9%) are worried about not being able to spot fake news (National Literacy Trust, 2021b). Fake news not only increases anxiety among teens and damages their self esteem, they can also reduce teens trust in formal news. All this can have far-reaching and dangerous consequences, such as when teens lose the fear of dangerous diseases, start to exclude and separate on the basis of political propaganda or trivialise radical groups and to the extent they can be brainwashed into becoming members. This is never more important, with the government delaying the online harm bill until 2022, we need to act now to protect our children's mental health and futures. Please help by signing our petition and united, we can spread our message across the length and breadth of the UK.

the day Captain Tom passed is a day that should be celebrated in the calendar by everyone. Espescially the younger generations who didn't know about Captain Sir Thomas Moore and the amazing things he did and acheived in his lifetime. He was a hero and a hero he shall remain, but it wont be too long before his efforts and acheivments are. and will be forgotten. r.i.p Tom

Because single mothers need to be able to have higher education in order to help their children at home with their studies. Most children of single mothers are behind their studies because their mothers don't have the knowledge and skills to teach them at home. Single mothers may not have the means to employ private professional teachers.

Students whose courses have been thrown into chaos by the coronavirus pandemic should be reimbursed for the year or allowed to retake it at no further cost, Why should the students have a debt for something that they havent had?

Captain Sir Tom Moore was and is an inspiration to all - showing that signs of life will never slow us down, to remain positive, to keep on smiling and to remember tomorrow will be a good day.

I believe this will not only help the future labor force but teach them that things they learn in school have real life application. This will teach younger students to be more involved in their local community to respect and understand people they live and work with a little better. Not only this allowing for work experience is an invaluable experience as most jobs nowadays require previous experience which is quite hard in the current environment as well as sparking real interest into future career. Allowing for this material to be compulsory will help make better well rounded individuals and hopefully prevent people from falling through the gaps.

Providing boxes of food is degrading, doesn't represent good value for taxpayers' cash and does not allow parents to choose what is best for their children. Almost every council in Scotland provides cash or vouchers directly to families. East Ayrshire should do the same.