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If you’re reading this newsletter and take even a loose interest in Scottish education, you’ve almost certainly heard about the incident in Dalmarnock in the East End of Glasgow this week when a group of parents with so-called ‘legitimate concerns’ turned up at their children’s school to protest.

They had done their research and discovered that pupils were being put at risk by the provision of English classes for immigrant parents, and set out to make themselves heard. It worked - helped by the transformational powers of social media.

A key concern, they argued, was that these other parents were not being properly vetted before accessing the school, perhaps due to some sort of insidious loophole that had been uncovered in the regulatory system known as Protecting Vulnerable Groups (or PVG for short).

Now, we can all agree that keeping children safe should be a priority, so I started doing a bit of digging to see if I could find other examples where adults are able to go into schools without first passing a full PVG check.

Shockingly, I can confirm that........

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