Why is Scotland so different?

[Indiestarr]

Does anyone have any insight? Presumably Scotland has the same post-industrial decline and deprivation issues as the north east of England and Wales, and yet their vote was pretty much the complete opposite of these areas. How is it they are almost uniformly progressive when the rest of the UK (NI aside) is anything but?

Just as an aside I am getting a bit fed up of all the analysis into which region / demographic voter did what. If all the Brexit voters in NI and Scotland had just stayed and home and not voted the overall result would have been Remain. In that sense, almost uniquely, every vote in every region is represented equally in the result. In contrast Scotland only votes 50% SNP but the SNP hold 56 out of 59 Westminster seats.

No clue if they even produce annual figures, but there were 5 hearings in May, none of the teachers are still on the register.

Anyone can put in a complaint to the GTC about misconduct...and surely any malicious and unfounded reports to SS would be the evidence?

The NP isn't being given power to actually do anything over and above collecting information and passing it on, they're not actually able to make decisions that should be in the hands of SS.

"The schools I know struggle to resource addressing the cases for concern they are made aware of by SS etc and are very very far from looking for more cases to refer."

I know they found that in authorities where it's already being done that it actually lessened referrals - there were less of the niggly, well I'm not sure if this is an issue or not but I'm going to pass it on to SS just in case ones because they could be passed on to the NP who could put it in a file and so would know if alongside other things it was something worrying or that if in context it was nothing important.

So, the P1 teacher was an alcoholic and verbally abusive - she retired 'before the complaint could be actioned'.
In P3 the SfLT stated that Dyslexic English kid had no SfL needs, it was just 'the accent' that was the problem. She retired next day.
There is the other one who is racist and sexist and still teaching.
We made a complaint and was told there was 'no evidence'.
Minutes from the meeting were altered and the other staff members suddenly 'couldn't remember'.
And, over a period of time, the LA decided that it was easier to turn on a family than to turn around a failing school.
And a referral to SS was made (who declined to action it).
One of the LA people will now be the NP.

How can this possibly be appropriate?
Who do you complain to about this???

At ds' school, the depute who will be responsible for implementing NP (as he is responsible for Pastoral Care) says that is relaxed about its implementation as if anything it will make their life easier, as it confirms the good practice that they already follow.

I asked about school holidays and he said that they already had a policy of a teacher being "on call" over the holidays (long pre-dating the NP legislation) and that SS had their mobile numbers anyway (and vice versa).