The sixth and final petition is PE1486, in the name of Julie Wales. Members have a note by the clerk and submissions. What are members’ views?
Official Report · Committee
Current Petitions
Primary 1 Class Sizes and Sibling Placing Requests (PE1486)
Speakers
Choose an MSP to read only their contributions- David Stewart Lab 2
- Jackson Carlaw Con 1
- John Wilson SNP 1
The record
4 contributionsWe are at a point—I am not sure whether I did not regard this as inevitable—at which we should consider closing the petition in view of the information that we have received and the Government’s review of class sizes in 2014.
Although I agree with Jackson Carlaw that we have reached a place that we knew we would come to, the difficulty is that, even with the class size review in 2014, the placement requests issue will not be resolved, as we have discussed previously in the committee. Family members have to understand that placement requests are decided by local authorities and that they have appeals processes. We would not want to encourage anyone who is making a request to have siblings placed along with their older brothers or sisters in the same school to think that the Government review on class sizes will hold out any hope for them. Placement requests are, in many respects, decided by the capacity of the school or otherwise to deal with those requests. Therefore, we should close the petition.
I hope that the petitioner will read the Official Report and see from our comments that we are not holding out hope that the class size review will result in siblings being placed in the particular schools that families wish them to be placed in.
As there are no further contributions, do members agree to close the petition under rule 15.7?
Members indicated agreement.
Meeting closed at 11:48.
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