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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.
They asked us not to take action on the absentee in question, who was valued in the community, visited it regularly and so on. It is difficult to address such situations through regulation.
You will understand our concern—which is widely felt in the Parliament—about the implications. For example, on Friday, I visited a relatively new training company that employs five people who were extremely worried about the company's future because of the problems at Scottish Enterprise.
However, we were concerned about the precise nature of that role, on which we seek further information—we would like to know more about the powers and functions that the licensing standards officers will be expected to undertake.
Significant progress has already been made in the two years since the strategy was launched, as I saw on my recent visits to Lawmuir Primary School in Bellshill and to Broomlands Primary School in Kelso in my constituency.
The Finance Committee concluded at paragraph 33 of its report:"The Committee … recognises that this need not be a precise percentage, but that it should use comparative growth and growth-related indicators as benchmarks for improvement.
It is fair to say that that has reached chief executive level at FirstBus: Mr Lockhead has visited the area on two occasions. There is a genuine willingness on the part of First, as major bus operator, to try to get things right.