Plans to axe a service which helps to boost attendance in Edinburgh’s schools have been scrapped. The council has withdrawn controversial proposals to close the Education Welfare Service after engagement with schools highlighted a “high number of strengths”. The u-turn allays fears raised by trade unions that Education Welfare Officers (EWOs) would be offered voluntary redundancy or redeployed to other jobs as a result of the decision, without their “invaluable” work being picked up by others.... Read this story
