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Health Education (Guidelines) (PE427)
The second item on the agenda is our consideration of petition PE427. Members have received a further letter from the minister in relation to the petition. Are there any comments?
I must confess that I am not exactly clear about what the minister is saying. [Laughter.] Murdo Fraser should not laugh. We clearly asked whether Learning and Teaching Scotland would review the health education guidelines and when any such review would be undertaken. Although the suggestion that the committee's views should be conveyed to Learning and Teaching Scotland is valuable, the main question is whether the minister will review the guidelines or ask Learning and Teaching Scotland to do so. Maybe it is just me, but I do not think that the response is particularly clear.
It is important to review the guidelines regularly. I wonder whether it is worth writing to Learning and Teaching Scotland to ask for its view on the matter and about the timetable for any review.
Are members content with that approach?
Perhaps we should also copy the letter to the minister.
Okay.
I am sure that other members have received a communication from the petitioners to the effect that they are not satisfied and that further clarity is needed. As a result, we need to go back to the minister.
So we will write to the minister and to Learning and Teaching Scotland to ask about the review and any proposed timetable for it. Are members agreed?
Before we move to the third item on the agenda, we will take a two-minute break to allow the advisers to come in and get organised.
Meeting suspended.
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