Scotland’s largest teaching union backed a motion calling for the ‘workload, contractual and legal implications’ of the Named Person scheme to be investigated.
At the Educational Institute of Scotland’s (EIS) annual general meeting, delegates asked its council to investigate and report on how the role of named person – which will fall to many teachers – affects their present workloads.
The move came after news that eight officials at one local authority had to cover for 80 named persons during school holidays. They received up to 25 referrals a day from the police.
