The group includes, among others, the Scottish Parent Teacher Council, the Scottish Consumer Council, the SSBA, COSLA and the Association of Directors of Education in Scotland, which are trying to help us to understand more fully the opportunities that are available and how we can more fully engage parents in the learning and school processes.We have allocated something like £5 million from the excellence fund in each of its three years to support the role of parents in their children's education, particularly by assisting family literacy schemes and by expanding the provision of home-link teachers across Scotland. I have visited...