Union chief Larry Flanagan says Scotland doesn't need national pupil testing

The general secretary of Scotland's biggest teaching union says plans to introduce standardised testing in primary schools could entrench inequality.

Larry Flanagan's comments come after the EIS warned it had serious concerns about Scottish government plans to introduce national tests in an attempt to bridge the attainment gap between well-off and poorer pupils.

He told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland: "The Scottish government has announced an attainment challenge programme. We were able to identify those schools quite easily in terms of needing the additional resource because local authorities do actually have the data.

"What we don't need is a national system which is really about benchmarking across Scotland rather than looking at classroom practice and how you support individual young people.