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Some education authorities already take a defensive approach and say that any adult who comes into a school, other than when visiting about their own child, should have Disclosure Scotland status.
The minister might well consider that when he visits each board in the summer. The primary issue that we are considering is that your department has not established a specific timescale for when the benefits will be achieved under the new consultant contract.
It is nice to be here today. Previously I have visited the committee room only as a tourist so it is nice to see it in official use.I am the director of the Association for the Conservation of Energy, which is based in London.
However, it does not mention specifically their ability to be recognised as next of kin for the purposes of hospital or prison visiting. Do you think that that should have been specifically provided for in the bill, for the sake of completeness?
We inspect jointly with HMIE, in accordance with the education level of inspection visits, and we go in more frequently to inspect services that are regulated for the under-fives.
We tend to ask questions about that, but we do not at the moment have time during routine inspections to visit the other agencies to get their side of the story.
Some members of the DFTA and some council officials went to Sedgefield. We found that visit to be extremely productive. At that time, there were wardens there whose prime job was to go about the place moving people on.