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Each local authority will be required to have regard to the value of stable family life in a child's development; and to the need to ensure that the content of teaching is appropriate to each child's age, understanding and stage of development. This duty is provided by section 26 of the Ethical Standards in Public Life etc (Scotland) Bill.
I do not accept Christine Grahame's comment about the brand new schools that I have visited. I have visited some of them, but over the past two or three weeks I have also visited some of our old schools and marvelled at the quality of education that is provided in some of them...
As an aside, I remember a case in which we thought that we had done well by organising a visit. However, the case was heard in another court, which was a mirror image of the court that the young child had visited.
The centre will offer venues for visiting companies so that high-quality productions can be put on in the Borders in a way that was not previously possible.
I particularly endorse Elaine Thomson's call on the Executive to develop adequate systems of monitoring and evaluation. Vive la différence—but also vive l'égalité!
I need only mention China, Korea, Guatemala, Indonesia, the Belgian Congo, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Grenada, Libya, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Iraq, Bosnia, and Sudan.