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Swinney accused of 'failing' kids with special needs
Scottish Education Secretary John Swinney

SCOTLAND’s Education Secretary John Swinney was accused of “failing” kids with special needs today by a woman whose daughter was left covered in her own excrement.

A mum called Marie told him on a radio call-in that a shortage of support staff had left her child “with poo up her back and down her leg”. 

Marie said she is now home-schooling her daughter after a series of incidents.

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