27/01/2017 Reporting Scotland

BBC Scotland has learnt that cameras installed on boats

to monitor the ban on so-called discards are being

The number of them has halved in three years,

and WWF Scotland says there's now no effective monitoring of the ban.

Our environment correspondent Kevin Keane reports.

It's a controversial practice which all sides want to end

but the contention is over how to do it.

Discards are the dead fish thrown back into the sea because the boat

It's now being banned, a few species at a time.

Three years ago, boats were offered a chance to install

cameras to help the monitoring of the ban.

As an incentive, skippers were allowed to bring back more fish.

But for cod, the scheme has ended and the cameras

are being handed back, which is causing alarm.

We have significant concerns about the low levels of monitoring

taking place of what's happening at sea.

In fact, the number of vessels monitored is only around 1%,

so we are concerned that we are not able to know what is happening

and whether the ban is being adhered to.

With many species found in mixed fisheries, where they swim together,

a netload might fill their quota for a fish they don't want,

For fishermen, the problem is not the monitoring,

The cameras never did exist to do that.

They were never meant as a compliance tool.

We had hoped they would contribute to the science.

We are nowhere near the sort of technology to allow that

to happen, but in the fullness of time it might do.

To use them as an extremely expensive compliance tool

The Fisheries Minister has been unavailable to interview today,

but in a statement, the Scottish Government said...

Fishermen say the ban is inflexible and are pinning their hopes

on a new, post-Brexit fishing policy to produce a solution

The number of schoolchildren classed as having additional support needs

has gone up dramatically in recent years.

Last year, nearly a quarter of pupils had an

But the number of dedicated teachers has fallen by a fifth in five years.

While children with additional needs usually stay in mainstream schools,

sometimes this isn't the right option.

Our education correspondent Jamie McIvor reports.

Falkland House in Fife is a specialist facility for boys

It helps children with autism, ADHD, Tourette's and social,

Some of its success stories are remarkable.

When I was 12, I couldn't read or write.

I went from, I'm currently now in college doing my intro to sport

and hopefully be ready for university by the end of the course.

You get the personal attention that you need.

In mainstream schools, there are 20 people in a class

He was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

I think the authorities would have been happy for him to struggle

through secondary school, but we had to get the headteacher

and another support network to fight for us.

Karen's ten-year-old son is at Falkland House.

He has Asperger's syndrome and was desperately unhappy

He was admitted into Yorkhill and the childhood

He was admitted into Yorkhill and the childhood and family

It was an emergency admission because things got that extreme.

He did not want to be in this world any more.

She also faced battle with the council.

They disbanded the disability team within social work and generic

social workers took over, who didn't have an understanding.

Provision varies across Scotland, while the number of specialist

We are lacking educational psychologists.

We are training them, but the numbers are decreasing.

We would like to see a review of how we are supporting

the training of educational psychologists, their role.

There's widespread support for the principle of trying to keep

The Government is looking at the guidance.

The Government is currently reviewing what is available

on the principle of mainstreaming to make sure it is appropriate

for our times and meets the needs of the current educational environment.

Removing a child from a mainstream school is always

The fear is that a lack of money or specialist staff may

sometimes make things harder for youngsters who face

Celtic face a battle with the English league

leaders Chelsea for one of their prize assets.

Craig Gordon has already been the subject of one

And his manager Brendan Rodgers maintains he wants the goalkeeper

to sign a new deal at Celtic rather than head for the riches of England.

He's caught the eye of the top team in England.

Chelsea are also one of the richest, and could offer Craig Gordon

At Celtic, though, he is key to present and future plans.

He is someone I want to keep for a longer period, so I would hope

that the only thing that comes out of this is that we can renegotiate

with him and get him here for a longer period than the

18 months he has left, and he can get on with working and playing

at a club that I know he loves being at.

Brendan Rodgers does not want to sell, but he did say every

If Chelsea meet the valuation, what does the player have to weigh up?

Will he have first-team football at Chelsea?

He has it at Celtic and has performed extremely well.

He has changed his whole game under Brendan and he is enjoying himself.

For him to go down and the second choice...

In saying that, he could work his way into the team at Chelsea

Having had a bid rejected, will Chelsea come back in?

I don't know about a lot of name that I rate.

If the Chelsea manager does not recognise the name,

He has come back pretty much from the dead to be

He had a hard spell of injury at Sunderland, but he has

enjoyed his football here and hopefully he

The next four days will be crucial in determining that.

Chelsea have until the transfer window closes on Tuesday

to make Celtic and Gordon an offer they can't refuse.

And now the weather with Kirsteen. We did have sunshine across much of

the country this morning, however the cloud did come rolling in from

the west during the day. Thank you to our Weather Watcher in the

Highlands for this stunning image. Tonight, Clady is how it stays with

outbreaks of rain across many areas. Snow across the high ground and

hills, with sweet in the lowlands and Central Belt. As the rain

bridges into eastern areas, there will be the risk of ice.

Temperatures recovering somewhat as we head into Sunday morning. Hide it

from most of us tomorrow morning, gradually pulling towards the east

over the course of the day. Leaving a legacy of cloud behind it, across

much of central and eastern Scotland. Patchy rain continuing

across eastern coastal areas into the afternoon. The best brightness

tomorrow will be along western coastal areas. Through the likes of

Argyll the northwest Highlands, the Western Isles and sky, we will see

the odd rumble of thunder possible. Try a cost much of the North East,

rain in Shetland, although the winds easing here. For the rest of the UK,

a similar story to ourselves, improving from the west. Showers in

Northern Ireland, otherwise cloudy with some rain and highs of 10

Celsius. Tomorrow evening, that rain will pull away into the North Sea. A

few showers remaining across the North West, otherwise becoming

clear, cold with a widespread frost developing. For a Sunday,

high-pressure overhead keeping the weather dry unsettled. Elsewhere,

this rain were beginning to move in. That may just reach the very far

south of Scotland in the afternoon. Otherwise looking dry wood spells of

sunshine. That's the forecast. Thank you very much, that's it from

everyone on the late