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Major changes are under way in some of the teacher training institutions. We are funding new posts in the University of Aberdeen, where new professors are developing new ways of training teachers and supporting them in the process of being trained in inclusion and additional s...
We have a good relationship with independent schools. I appreciate that there are new burdens for the independent sector—for example, the McCrone settlement is an additional burden and the new probationer scheme is a potential additional burden.
During that period, as is always the case when restructuring is taking place, attention was paid to financial performance, new teams arriving, what the new financial regime would look like and how the new trust would be managed.
That is included in the Port Marine Safety Code, which is a relatively new initiative that the Department for Transport has developed over the past decade.
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.
Those discussions will get under way on 26 February, when there will be a meeting of officials in Edinburgh.I will speak briefly about the recent discussions on a cod recovery plan, about which I am pleased that we have at last reached agreement.
This raises a question that we have considered once before: must the board be stood down before a new board can be elected, or can a statutory instrument be used to make the change in one fell swoop?