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Lucy Adams

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  • Social Affairs Correspondent, BBC Scotland, BBC
Glasgow
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Education and Social Affairs Correspondent @BBCScotlandNews and @BBCDisclosure sometimes @BBCPanorama. Senior Fellow with @JSchofieldTrust. Lucy.adams@bbc.co.uk
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Bullying pupils protected more than victims, parents say

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By Katy McCloskey, Lucy Adams Verified
| Yahoo Verified
In late 2024 Lesley got a phone call from her eight-year-old son's primary school to tell her he had been kicked on the head while he was on the ground. Over the next 12 months things got worse for her son as the bullying continued, Lesley told the BBC. "There were numerous physical assaults, kicking him in the head, putting his head against the wall and throwing him on the ground," she said. "Then the solution became to restrict my son. "He wasn't allowed to go to the toilet on his own.
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New CCTV footage contradicts prison death evidence

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By Lucy Adams Verified
| Yahoo Verified
The BBC has obtained previously unseen footage of a man who died after being restrained by prison officers, which contradicts the version of events put forward by officials. BBC News took Scottish ministers to court earlier this year after they refused to hand over CCTV footage of the moments leading up to the restraint incident after which Allan Marshall died.
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Schools cutting subjects due to teacher shortage 'crisis'

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By Lucy Adams Verified, Katy McCloskey
| Yahoo Verified
Secondary schools are reducing timetables and cutting whole subjects from the curriculum due to a lack of specialist teachers, education leaders have told BBC Scotland News. The Association of Directors of Education in Scotland says a national action plan is needed urgently to increase recruitment and address the "crisis". It says there are particular shortages in maths, science, design technology and computing, and that pupils are not accessing the full range of subjects in every year.
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