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We hope to agree the programme and to publish it on the committee's web page. Whatever programme we devise will be subject to the vagaries of time and events.
We are in no way accountable to the Scottish Prison Service and we try hard to make that clear.Every prison must be visited by two committee members every fortnight, so there is regular visiting.
I was particularly impressed when I visited an early years establishment at which an interactive whiteboard was being used by three and four-year-olds in a remarkable way.
I refer members to the paper prepared by the clerk, which sets out a proposed approach to fact-finding visits in respect of the inquiry. I seek members' views on whether they wish to visit the prisons that are suggested in the paper.
I believe that there is some sort of open week in Finland in November during which people can visit various projects. I do not want that to slip from our minds.