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It is also the point at which the career support from Skills Development Scotland begins it’s enhanced support for those who require it most, recognising the importance of one to one, more intensive support at that point offers a greater opportunity to encourage young people and their parents/carers to consider earlier the full range of post-school options.
We extended until 26 to recognise the additional time disabled people may need to get to a positive destination.
As I understand it, most of our 32 local authorities—certainly more than half of them—subscribe to the programme, but some do not. It would be useful for us to get an update on what has been—I know that this will be close to your heart, convener—a Scottish Government good-news story.
They need to work out where we want them and how we will get them. After doing that, they need to work out how we will get people to invest in them, because, as Colin Smyth has said, there are people who want to do so.