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NSW education staff say they are being sent to schools without adequate training to ‘plug the casual crisis’
Workers concerned they will be covering flu-related teacher absences in coming months with no end date for scheme given
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Education department staff being “conscripted” to fill Covid-related vacancies at New South Wales schools have said they are being sent into teaching environments without adequate training, and were just plugging holes in a broader “casual crisis”.
One employee, who has never worked with or been specifically trained to care for special needs students, claimed they were sent to teach a class of students with disabilities.
Read the original article at The Guardian