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We are talking about uploading the information—I imagine that the minutes have already been written. We are just trying to make the site usable for people—it has to be accessible to everybody.
I do not accept the comparisons with the situation in England, but I accept the fear, which Fiona Hyslop and Maureen Watt expressed, about creating a two-tier system.
I welcome the fact that the centre has established a permanence team to look at how decisions can be reached more quickly.I note concerns expressed in the briefing from Barnardo’s that decision making by local authorities is inconsistent and often based on poor information.
The individualised nature of the data is what is new.In his evidence, Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People expressed some frustration: we have information on educational attainment, but what else?