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These possible costs are likely to take the form of partnership working and liaison, development of new / additional processes and procedures, and implementation of new ways of working and cultural change activity.
The operation of the protocol is considered by representatives from all signatories at an annual National Liaison Committee meeting and quarterly by a Joint Working Group.
I recognise the point that you make and the concern that you express, and I agree with Iain Stewart that the projects that are taken forward or are proposed for a deal come from local partners rather than being directed by us.
I know that lockdown has not affected everyone in the same way. I have repeatedly expressed my concern and compassion for young people in particular, who have faced significant restrictions at an important time of their lives that contains many important milestones.
When money is tight, it is often easier to reduce maintenance budgets than service delivery budgets. This committee has expressed concern in the past about the annual estates report for hospitals and national health service buildings.
The system has been in place for some time, and there is a range of views on how effectively it works. I will not express a view either way. It is reasonable to ask whether a review of its effectiveness might be taken forward in the next parliamentary session.
The Law Society of Scotland told the committee that children’s hearings should be able to grant FGM protection orders, although Liz Owens from Social Work Scotland expressed doubts about that and suggested that the court process would provide a more sensitive approach.
Other relevant information relating to care experience might be about the young person’s actual experience—their trauma and difficulty—and how that expresses itself within their life. If there is no balance in that, and no re-engagement with the context, there are real and significant risks.
That is what I think is intended by the expression “rolling reviews” in the policy memorandum, but I do not think that the current provisions in the bill would actually give rise to that.