This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
We have been talking about this for years, minister, and there are four options a few months before we are going to put this into place. There are four extra options—in addition to all the other ones.
I do not want to create work for Ian Bruce by causing extra complaints to come in but, on the other hand, it is really important that potential breaches are looked at.
The concern is not about recording incidents or what the guidance says about what is appropriate for restraint but about the extra caution that could come from legislating that might endanger children.
People such as Jon Henderson and I, who have had to plough through the Grenfell evidence, know that it can sometimes be as simple as one or two extra letters at the end of the component name.
We need a critical mass to make that happen, and extra support in communities will be required to give it critical mass and enhanced credibility so that it does not retreat further.
New duties are coming—for instance, the scrutiny role that arises from the Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill will require new staff and extra resources—and that needs to be built into a future budget, although probably not this year’s budget.