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I was therefore pleased that the committee convener and colleagues were able to visit both the Salus and Atos assessment centres in Glasgow and Edinburgh to see at first hand the level of professionalism and care that is afforded to people who visit for an assessment.
I agree that the family nurse partnership is impressive. I have been out on some visits, and I believe that the committee has visited some of the health boards that are further down the line with implementing the programme.
When the committee visited Shetland, it heard from a great raft of organisations—professional and otherwise—and companies that have faced the Crown Estate tax collector for too long.
Unemployment is certainly very low.During the Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee’s visit to Heriot-Watt University, to launch our report on underemployment in Scotland, I talked to careers advisers.
Brian Whittle highlighted the work of Hollybush house, which I visited recently. He is correct about the great work that is done there by Combat Stress.
We find that the lack of supply teachers hits us particularly in terms of visiting specialists. Our visiting specialists provide our McCrone time, but we find that we are regularly teaching more than our classroom hours because the visiting support teacher is off ill and we ca...