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The Audit Scotland report was critical of the Scottish Government for the lack of baseline data that was available to measure the comparative outcomes of targeting different priorities within childcare spending.
The aims, ambitions and objectives of the bill could be within other commissioners’ offices, as I have already said; however, regarding the principles, the proposed commissioner would be absolutely unique and different compared with the other commissioners and what they do.
However, if I may, I would like to write to you with some comparators. Stepping back from the comparison, I will say that we need to push the leverage ratio up.
For someone with sight loss, it could perhaps be compared to having something stolen such as a long cane or assistive technology such as a laptop or tablet with screen-reading software.
While there has been a significant uptake of UKIM applications compared with the previous UKTS or UK trader scheme—I apologise for all the acronyms—our members noted that the UKIM scheme is quite bureaucratic and challenging to get across.
Nine colleges returned a deficit in 2021-22, compared with three colleges the year before, which is quite a sharp change in the complexion of the colleges’ sustainability.
One that I have talked about previously in this room is the PANORAMIC study, which takes big groups of people, gives them a drug, compares them to those who do not get it and watches the results.
In our report we made assumptions on, for example, how 50 hours of childcare would remove barriers to work for mothers, and it was clear from the comparative data that we used that childcare is not the only barrier to work.