Meghan Gallacher: “This development does raise concerns about the impact on teaching resources and community cohesion.”

Private schools are under mounting financial pressure, while state schools are being left to pick up the pieces as more pupils transfer across.

Your government cannot claim that the NHS is its priority while patients are told to wait and prisoners are given certainty.

The Education Committee should now properly examine the growing pressure on private and state schools and the impact these policies are having across Scotland.

Labour’s VAT raid on school fees is looking increasingly indefensible, yet they seem determined to plough on regardless of the mounting evidence that their policy is hurting families and schools.