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Recommendations that have been implemented include those on the publication of guidance on best practice for child witness court familiarisation visits, interviewing child witnesses and questioning children in court.
Good examples are the Tweed Foundation heritage project and Rural Partnership near St Boswells, both of which have been visited by the ministers. They are examples of best practice that can be taken on and developed elsewhere.
Co-ordination is required—we should not simply co-ordinate adaptations in one place, allocations in another and services somewhere else. Would the situation be best addressed by local authorities or by a national, central agency?
Our reading of the paperwork that we have received is that we are talking about best value. Our contention would be that best value need not always be related solely to financial best value, in terms of a bottom line.
As Mr Gallie well knows, as recently as Thursday evening we held the latest European members information and liaison exchange—EMILE—network meeting with our European Parliament colleagues.