Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting Minutes
12th Meeting, 2021
- Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2021
- Session: 6
- Location: TG.40-CR1 The Burns Room
- Meeting opened at: 09:30
- Meeting closed at: 12:28
- Published: Thursday, December 9, 2021 10:41am
Committee Members Attendees
- Stephen Kerr (Convener)
- Kaukab Stewart (Deputy Convener)
- Stephanie Callaghan (Member)
- Bob Doris (Member)
- James Dornan (Member)
- Fergus Ewing (Member)
- Ross Greer (Member)
- Michael Marra (Member)
Apologies received from
Substitute Members Attendees
1 Subordinate legislation:
The Committee heard evidence on SSI 2021/379 The Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 (Applications for Removal from List and Late Representations) Amendment Regulations 2021 from—
Clare Haughey MSP, Minister for Children and Young People, Scottish Government;
Lynne McMinn, Director of Policy, Customer Engagement and Communications and Rachel McLean, Disclosure (Scotland) Act Implementation Manger, Disclosure Scotland ;
Denise McKay, Deputy Director, Scottish Government Legal Directorate.
2 Subordinate legislation:
Meghan Gallacher moved—S6M- 02353—That the Education, Children and Young People Committee recommends that the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 (Applications for Removal from List and Late Representations) Amendment Regulations 2021 be annulled.
The motion was not agreed to (by division: For 2 (Meghan Gallacher MSP and Stephen Kerr MSP), Against (Stephanie Callaghan MSP, Bob Doris MSP, James Dornan MSP, Fergus Ewing MSP, Ross Greer MSP, Michael Marra MSP and Kaukab Stewart MSP), Abstentions 0).
3 Subordinate legislation:
The Committee considered the following negative instrument and made no comment—
SSI 2021/380 Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitory Provision) Regulations 2021
4 Skills: Alignment with Business Needs:
The Committee heard evidence from—
Leon Thompson, Executive Director, Scotland, UK Hospitality;
Paul Mitchell, Head of Employment Affairs, Scottish Building Federation;
and then from—
Professor Mark Logan, Professor in Practice, School of Computing Science, Glasgow University;
Dr Natalie Coull, Head of Cyber Security, School of Design and Informatics, Abertay University;
Karen Meechan, Chief Executive Officer and Nicola Taylor, Head of Operations and Skills, ScotlandIS .
5 Evidence Session (In Private)
The Committee considered the evidence it heard earlier under agenda item 4