Threats and violence against school staff – emergency schools one of the government's measures

2023-09-26T03:40:09.728Z

Highlights: New government grant for emergency schools. 54 municipalities in the country have so far applied for the government's new grant to establish emergency schools, The appropriation for 2023 is SEK 50 million. The number of enrolments from Swedish compulsory schools has been around 700 per year. We need smaller and more teaching groups for those students who cannot go to a regular class, says the Minister for Education Lotta Edholm in SVT Nyheter's interview. You can hear the answers in the clip above.

Emergency schools and increased powers for teachers. It is the government's response to school staff being subjected to threats and violence. "We politicians have been far too flat. Teachers should not have to be subjected to threats and violence at their workplace, says Minister for Education Lotta Edholm (L).