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Revealed: the 4000 migrant children in our schools who can't speak English

Some pupils receive just 15 minutes a week from specialists as teachers struggle to keep up with demand By John Bynorth, Home Affairs Editor

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.