strike in Scotland is one that Unison seems to prefer to ignore. The fact is that in some areas, including Edinburgh, nursery nurses are employed as support staff in special schools - not nurseries. This means that children and young people aged five to 18 are being deprived of their statutory full-time education, not nursery education.
I am extremely angry about the whole thing, the more so as representatives of Unison are refusing to meet parents like me to explain - if they can, which I doubt - their reasoning for the strike. I am told that in England and Wales, special schools are exempted as a matter of course in situations like this. But precedent seems to mean nothing to Unison and its nursery nurse members, and I no longer regard them as being caring or professional - the more so every day as I see my son getting more and more upset.
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