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I understand the reasons outlined by Stewart Stevenson and Fergus Ewing. I thank Stewart for pointing out that I could not make it to the meeting last week.
For me, supported employment is for disabled people; it is not for people with learning needs. Sometimes, when we talk about supported employment, we are not talking about people with learning disabilities; we are talking about people who might have support needs.
People turned up to the meeting to talk about bins and containers, but the point is that they had to turn up because they had not been properly consulted.
In fact, we have the best employment rate for 15 to 19-year-olds of any Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development country and the best rate in the developed world.
It will obviously not be possible for me to reply to every point in detail, but I want to assure him that local accountability is important and that anything we do in future must be focused on better outcomes to improve community safety.