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The minister said, in summing up:"Indeed, Chay Blyth stated that the Largs Yacht Haven, which I have visited, was one of the best-kept secrets in British sailing."
Have you discussed this with your opposite numbers in England and Wales to understand the impact that such work has had on them? Yes, we visited those responsible for policy and implementation and we had preliminary visits to get an overview of staffing.
We are aware of that model and the minister has been out to visit it. Much of the community work that flows from that court is done very quickly, so an association is made by the offender between crime and punishment.
The department has spent quite a bit of time ensuring that we do not have multiple visits to farm premises. Over a reasonable time span, we want to ensure that we are able to visit a range of farms.
We have a learning development framework for all our in-store customer advisers, but we found that a number of our staff were screening themselves out of such development, even though we can say that we have no age barriers.
The point that I was trying to make, and one on which I want to reflect further, is that if we have not mainstreamed equality thinking into departments, they will hone the process by screening out equality considerations by saying that they are implicit.