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The Committee recommends that the Scottish Government and local authorities ensure that sufficient sums are available to facilitate regular visits by families and that steps are taken to swiftly remove any technical constraints that hinder online contact where visits are not possible.
Education and Skills Committee, focus group notes from visit to Shetland (June 2018)The Minister was asked about rural and island communities during his evidence session, including limitations on the availability of a sufficiently diverse range of opportunities for young people.
However, given the time pressures on MSPs, who can also be on more than one committee, most committees try not to have visits and meetings in the same week, so that the pressures on time for oral evidence remain.
Retrieved from <a href="http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/download/meetings/id/53239/report_of_the_independent_inquiry_into_the_construction_of_edinburgh_schools" target="_blank">http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/download/meetings/id/53239/report_of_the_independent_inquiry_into_the_construction_of_edinburgh_schools</a> A large proportion of building standards site visits were concerned with drainage (e.g. 37 out of 38 visits to the construction of Gracemount High School were in regard to drainage).6John, C. (2017).
The questions focussed on the following issues:
respect for wild animals in travelling circuses;
impact of the travelling environment on wild animals;
benefits of wild animals in travelling circuses and whether these justified any potential compromise to their wellbeing;
whether the use of wild animals in travelling circuses should be banned and alternatives to a ban;
whether any ban should apply to all wild animals or be species specific;
financial and economic implications of a ban;
whether stakeholders were aware of the numbers of wild animal circuses visiting...
These core services are supplemented by specialist staff from other areas, either working in-house or, more usually, visiting professionals from outside. Outside specialists tend to include consultant psychiatrists, dentists, opticians and allied health professions such as physiotherapists.
By the end of 2014/15 there were 994 clubs in Scotland with 114,577 individual members involved in community sport hubs.
The Committee visited two Community Sport Hubs - Aviemore and Drumchapel.
Scottish Broadcasting: The Committee will take evidence from— David Smith, Director of Screen, Screen Scotland; Paul McManus, Scotland Negotiations Officer, BECTU; Emily Oyama, Director of Policy, Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television. 2.
S6W-42240 Fulton MacGregor: To ask the Scottish Government whether it has any plans to introduce routine prostate cancer screening for (a) the whole population and (b) people in higher risk groups.