The Educational Institute of Scotland said the £500,000 of funding to train teachers as behaviour co-ordinators was "a relatively small sum that won't go very far" and claimed indiscipline was "endemic" among Scottish pupils.
Reported assaults on Scottish teaching staff rose by 5 per cent in 2001/02 to 5,412. The incidents took place across all forms of education - 2 per cent were in nursery schools.
Each of Scotland's 32 local authorities will receive £15,000 under the new plan, but the EIS said the money "is not going to train very many people".
The union also claimed that local authorities had cut many guidance teacher posts - "the very type of teachers who would normally deal with indiscipline" - since the start of the implementation of the McCrone review on teachers' pay and conditions in 2000.
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