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As indicated in the answer given to question S1W-28252 today, the Scottish Executive Education Department is arranging discussion with representatives of local authorities about the applicability in Scotland of material issued recently by the Department for Education and Skills in England to supplement their guidance on the health and safety of pupils on educational visits. This material includes reference to risk assessment for school trips.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-19658 by Iain Gray on 16 November 2001, what visits to HM Prison Peterhead have been arranged for 2002 as a result of the prison receiving the Beacon Site award.
The Social Work Services Inspectorate will be reviewing progress on all the recommendations in Sensing Progress through its annual visits to local authorities and will report on this in its annual report for 2001.
That is where all our questions are coming from. Given that a lot of new measures have been implemented in the past year—higher still going live for the first time, a new IT system, the SQA having to manage all the data, the new certificates—and given the history in the public...
I am a child of the 1960s, and I recall that when I went to schools they were new schools, when I went to health centres they were new health centres, or new health centres were being built, and when I went to hospitals, new hospitals w...
Jack McConnell is actively involved in the strategy: he has visited China and has encouraged people from China to come to Scotland—he is active in developing the partnership.
As members would have to be in Aberdeen anyway, and as three members of the committee are from the Aberdeen area, we had thought that it would be a good idea to tag on a committee meeting to the Aberdeen visit. However, that might give rise to problems and I would welcome members' views on the suggestion.