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One group that we have discussed are public sector workers who might visit people in their own homes. I am thinking about workers such as social workers or housing officials who, because of the nature of the work, are often women and often go alone to people's homes.
Our statistics show that we have had nearly as many visits in this session as we had in the two and a half years from our establishment in the previous session.
I have to say that I was not very pleased with what I said, as I précised my speech and it did not satisfy me at all.In my view, that experience illustrates the fact that members need to know in advance whether they will be given four minutes or six minutes.
We referred earlier to both the output monitoring framework and the corporate training system, which are in place precisely to address that issue. Will Mr Frizzell comment on that point?
It is about lifelong learning centres.Sorry, convener, to make a football analogy, but we opened a lifelong learning centre in Dunfermline, at East End park—I shall quickly move on. It was visited by a lot of young people who had never thought of education before.