TEACHERS demanded the return of Welsh schools to local council control today as part of a strategy to tackle rising levels of racism.

Teachers’ union NASUWT Cymru was responding to a report on racism in Welsh secondary schools by Children’s Commissioner Rocio Cifuentes called Take it Seriously.

NASUWT Cymru’s Neil Butler said: “The report on racism in secondary schools is a welcome addition to the growing evidence of a general and widespread decline in the behaviour of learners in our schools.”