Scotland: 4000 migrant children in our schools who can’t speak English

Scottish schools are failing to teach English to the rising numbers of migrant eastern European pupils and will create a generation of new Scots without the most basic grasp of the language, according to a BBC investigation. Teachers, union leaders and education chiefs claim the Scottish government is failing to provide enough funding for specialists to tutor foreign-speaking pupils, with the latest figures revealing that 138 languages are spoken by 28,000 pupils, and 3595 speak no English at all.

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