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What is important for the Scottish health council is that, whatever the nature of the change, we ensure that there is best practice and effective participation.
The Government wants to ensure that we open up all our airwaves to competition between in-house production and indies, and I happen to think that that is the right thing, because we want to get the best of the independent sector with the best of our in-house production.
If so, does that not seem a little harsh? I think that it would be best if detailed confirmation about the Government’s plans came from the Government.
As I said, I have had discussions with headteachers in East Lothian. They know their pupils and staff best and are trusted to make decisions that are in the best interest of their pupils.
That begs the question: who or which agency should be looking at that, investigating what seems to be best practice, and saying, “How do we scale that to deliver the best outcomes?”?
Where we fall down is on deployment of the data and using it to our best advantage. The cabinet secretary and I have a shared interest in information technology.