Education Scotland has carried out a “breathtaking” attack on transparency that makes it impossible to discern how schools are progressing over a long period, opposition politicians said.
The government agency said its policy of removing “outdated” reports meant those published before April 2008 had been destroyed, while the public no longer has online access to reports dating back more than five years.
Iain Gray, Scottish Labour’s education spokesman, said the admission was “simply astonishing, irresponsible behaviour by the key public body responsible for Scotland’s school system”.
He said: “Education Scotland has been under fire before for acting in the interests of Scottish ministers rather than Scottish schools and pupils, but to destroy records so that we cannot judge progress or otherwise in schools is breathtaking.
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