- Title or Description
- Complaints Regarding Insecure Employment Practices in Education Workforce
- FOI Number
- 20250460
- Date Received
- 15/04/2025
- Type of Request
- FOI
- Request or Question
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1. Please provide copies or summaries of any complaints, concerns, grievances, or formal correspondence submitted between 1 January 2022 and the present day relating to:* The use of insecure employment practices in schools (e.g. zero-hour contracts, lack of permanent roles, repeated fixed-term contracts, or inconsistent supply work).
? The impact of such practices on staff wellbeing, job security, or continuity of learning for pupils.
2. Please include any complaints or concerns raised by:
? Teachers or education staff
? Trade unions
? The GTCS, ombudsman, or any external oversight body
3. If available, please also include:
? Any investigations or internal reviews triggered by these complaints
? Outcomes or actions taken in response
If it would exceed the cost limit to provide full documents, please prioritise providing a summary of complaints by year, including:
? The number of complaints
? The general nature of the concerns
? Whether the complainant was a staff member, union, or external body - Response
- Scottish Borders Council have received no complaints, concerns, grievances, or formal correspondence submitted between 1 January 2022 and the present day.
