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Despite that, we feel that this event very clearly met Scotland’s original objective for the Year of Homecoming ... to appeal to those of Scottish descent or with an affinity to Scotland to visit the country. The Gathering certainly achieved this objective.
For example, Lucy Adams from The Herald has written a number of articles about her recent visit to Bangladesh, and she has written about other parts of the world, too, so there are good examples out there.I have created the human trafficking unit within the SCDEA.
Eddie Frizzell has been the head of the Scottish Executive’s Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning Department, the chief executive of the Scottish Prison Service and the director of Locate in Scotland. He is currently visiting professor in public service management at Queen Margaret University.
They report to us that they simply could not exist without our support—I am sure that other independent trusts hear the same thing. We assess and visit the organisations, and analyse what they are doing.
For example, regulation 4 says:"An inspection carried out by SCSWIS ... may include some or all of the following ...(a) visits to ... premises ...(b) review of documentation".We do not know the extent to which the traditional inspections that the care commission has undertaken for nine years will be a thing of the past.
I am circulating some graphic displays of that and the solutions in other countries. It is your inaugural visit and here you are inaugurating something.
However, that figure actually covers making door-to-door visits, raising awareness of the scheme, seeing who will benefit from it and signing people up; in other words, it is for delivering the programme.
We will do that job if people want us to do it—we are good at it—but there is a cost. I ask members to go and visit jails where programmes are delivered.
My sister-in-law now lives and works in the south of England and, when visiting her and using the M42, I have been impressed with the success of the scheme that has been piloted there to make use of the hard shoulder, particularly at peak times.