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If we do that as a primary exercise, it would be the best way forward.We are not all experts on this matter, but we are all genuinely concerned that we give children in Scotland the best opportunity.
We are not yet at the stage at which such work should be done, but we are aware that, at a certain point, it needs to be doneāand needs to be done well.
As I said, the mentoring project now has 26 mentors. Had we the resources and the structure, we could easily double that number, but we are constrained by the present funding arrangement.
For individuals, those are often part of the same set of decisions at a particular point in time. I have a small point of clarification, which follows on from David Mundell's point about the carrot-and-stick approach.