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Our advisory panel is already trying to deliver training for co-ordinators of visits to encourage and enable them to make judgments about where to take people and to tackle some of the myths that exist around what can happen.
It may be that the borrowing institution is visited by Glasgow Life, which would determine how well the institution met the criteria of the accreditation scheme, suggest improvements to ensure that it complied with the scheme or, if it could not be improved, take a view on lending in the first place.
For example, social workers and health professionals do joint visiting so that there is a shared approach to safety among the professionals who are involved.
I thank the Minister for Learning and Skills for visiting the college with me on Tuesday, and I am sure that he agrees that, although it is one of the smaller colleges, it is an excellent institution with good reports from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Education.
In her opening speech, the cabinet secretary mentioned the setting up of the web-based and telephone-based system, and the need to ensure that the flu line would be there to provide information for people.
You talked about the frustration that headteachers have in relation to staff. When we visited local authorities across Scotland last year, we picked up on that frustration.
In particular, I welcome Mercy Nalusiba, who is an assistant editor of Hansard in the Parliament of Uganda. She is visiting our own official report for a few days and has asked to sit in on a committee meeting.