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That recommendation was a response to many submissions that were made to the committee and to members' experience of visiting different parts of Scotland and seeing how so-called joint working was not working.I have one problem.
Once the committee has had a discussion, we might want to take up your offer of coming out for a visit. I am sure that we would get much more out of that.
I have to confess that, because of other pressures, I have not gone into as much detail as I would have liked, but I now have a programme of visits to various schools and educational facilities.
My problem with that is that one can argue quite convincingly that, to safeguard children's rights and to comply with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, it is necessary to have an advocate for children, but we run into a minefield when we get into the role of the children's commissioner in particular cases, which is what many members of the publi...
I am a member of the joint body which decides how to use the Fairtrade premium. We have used it to help get electricity for all workers' houses—my children can now study at night.
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Date answered:
26 April 2004
Tartan Day offered Scottish ministers and members of the Parliamentary delegationan excellent opportunity to promote Scotland as a good place to visit, study in, live and do businesswith.