Equal Opportunities Committee, 20 Mar 2007
Meeting date: Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Official Report
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European Year of Equal Opportunities for All 2007
Agenda item 5 is feedback on the meeting that I attended with the Scottish Executive equality unit on plans for the European year of equal opportunities for all.
The meeting was an opportunity for an initial discussion about how the year might be taken forward. Many ideas were suggested and an outline of potential events was agreed. Members will note from paper EO/S2/07/06/05, which has been circulated, that the Scottish Executive will outline more detailed plans for the year at the launch event later today and that a further meeting to discuss the plans in more detail will be held in April. I expect that the committee will want to be involved in any plans, and that it will want to comment on them.
Do members agree to the action that is proposed in paragraph 7 of paper EO/S2/07/06/05?
Members indicated agreement.
We thank you for your contribution and your report, convener.
You are welcome.
As this is our final meeting of the session, I want to say a few words of thanks. I thank the official report staff, our security officers, broadcasting, the Scottish Parliament information centre, all our witnesses, all those who attended events and consultation meetings and all those who submitted written evidence to the committee. Most of all, on behalf of the committee, I thank our clerking team, which has been wonderful, not only in Edinburgh, but in Orkney, Ayr and all the other places that we have visited to conduct our inquiry work. The team has helped us to do the work that we have needed to do.
We will now discuss in private a draft annual report and a draft report on our review of equalities in Scotland.
Meeting continued in private until 12:16.