Equal Opportunities Committee, 24 Oct 2000

Meeting date: Tuesday, October 24, 2000

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Equality Training

The next item is the update on equality training. Members will remember that we agreed a few meetings ago that we would produce a paper on the matter. Are there any comments or questions on the paper?

The paper says that Shona Simon, the equal opportunities adviser, will give her report to the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body "in the near future". Do we know when that is likely to be?

I am told that it will probably be before Christmas.

Given that, it makes sense to go along with the recommendations in the paper. We should await the publication of the draft strategy and comment on it in detail thereafter, and examine specific aspects of training to consider how it can be taken forward.

Is the committee happy to leave the matter until a meeting early in the new year, after Shona Simon's proposals have been published?

Members indicated agreement.