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I would also like the committee to write to the care commission to ask it why—given its fee structure, in which it records the various establishments that it is required to inspect and visit—it does not have details of who has which services?
The Conveners Group was not happy with the second proposal that we put to it for visiting Australia in November. The main issue was cost: the amount for which we were asking was a substantial part of the Conveners Group budget.
On the same day, President Rigol of the Catalan Parliament visited us and there was a highly useful exchange of views on some of the work that can be done between the two Parliaments in the run-up to the intergovernmental conference.
On the same day, President Rigol of the Catalan Parliament visited us and there was a highly useful exchange of views on some of the work that can be done between the two Parliaments in the run-up to the intergovernmental conference.
The SAC spends about £26 million or £27 million of public money—I am not trying to sound like Brian—and usually spends it rather well, but there are big questions about the size of its bureaucracy.
There have been a variety of tragic cases in the United Kingdom, recently and stretching back over 25 years—there have been 26 child deaths in that period as well as other cases of serious abuse.