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In others, the parties may be far apart on what they consider to be in the child’s best interests. In some cases there can be a high level of conflict.
We can look in more detail at the details of where overlap is and who takes responsibility for pointing that out. It is interesting that the correspondence talks about the groups having so much in common.
A lot of our members are grass-roots community organisations that know the people in their community best. We quite often find in our engagement work that people talk about the hard-to-reach groups, but they are not hard to reach; they are just in the community.
We have had dialogue with Babcock about the type 31 frigates programme, but the proximity to Govan and BAE—which is running the type 26 programme—makes that an obvious first choice.
That would also help to address your point about efficiency and about making the best use of hard-pressed officers’ time by enabling such conversations and helping them to happen once.
Last week, His Majesty’s chief inspector of constabulary in Scotland talked to the committee about some collaborative work that he is doing with Audit Scotland, on a best value audit of Police Scotland, so there are good examples of such synergies.