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I point out that it is possible to access the evidence on the Health Committee's website and that, as Mike Rumbles will remember, I wanted to be a member of that committee.
The Scottish Executive's anti-bullying website admits that there is no legal bar to preventing teachers from explicitly condemning homophobic bullying, or discussing pupils' concerns about sexuality—a position that my party endorses entirely.The current Scottish Executive development department guidance to local authorities makes it clear that section 28 wi...
Yet, having consulted students, the Executive will tomorrow propose legislation to introduce variable top-up fees in Scotland. I am sorry to say that, despite such a provision to consult, the Executive has disregarded the views of students.
Witnesses expressed a real fear that, as those increased fees will come on top of financial pressures that the voluntary and independent sectors are already experiencing, the viability of many care homes and many beds in those homes will be threatened.Those who gave evidence expressed my second point even more strongly.
However, in the past year or so, when we have been back to Cornton Vale, the number of remand prisoners has edged back up, on occasion to as high as 70 or 71, which was the top figure. Last week, the number was 61.
For example, I understand that adoption from Cambodia is currently not permitted because of corruption among officials in that country.The Madonna case seems to highlight a loophole whereby UK residents can jump on a plane to a poor country and, in effect, buy a baby. The British Association for Adoption and Fostering is concerned that the widespread public...
Some encouraging signs are coming out of that system, whereby the sex offender is at the centre of a circle of people in the community who not only mentor and support them, but hold them to account.I looked on the website for the Thames valley circles of support and accountability programme yesterday and saw that a report has just been published.
As for my annual reports—which are available on my website—I am rather limited in what I can say publicly by the legislation that set up my role, the Scottish Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Act 2002.
That concern was confirmed by recent revelations from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Operation Candyman: thousands of British people logged on to a child pornography website in the United States of America, 700 of them from Scotland.The FBI was alerted by a message that said:"This group is for people who love kids."