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Importantly, the Lord Advocate also set out details of the current publicly available prosecution code, which contains comment on the public interest test and how the best interests of the child are central to decision making.
We have talked a bit about poor understanding of career opportunities in engineering and computer science and coding. Is there not the opposite problem that one of the reasons why computer science teachers cannot be recruited is that they can be paid a lot more for working in industry?
It is partly an IT project, and it is partly a culture change project—as is the case for all IT projects—in order to simplify time-recording codes and so on behind the scenes. We have a good project team working on it and we have had lots of dialogue in the business about it.
The SPADs say that they can advise but they cannot instruct. How many are sticking to that code? To me, it seems that the shadowy fingers of SPADs mark many FOI responses.
For example, the national 5 computing exam had coding errors in it, and STEM subjects and exams have become increasingly technical and have faced increased scrutiny.
To ask the Scottish Executive when its guidance on patient confidentiality was last updated. The NHSScotland Code of Practice on Protecting Patient Confidentiality was issued in July 2003.
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Date answered:
14 August 2007
Decisions on whetherto borrow and how to manage their housing income, expenditure and debt are mattersfor councils themselves, with regard to the Prudential Code. S3W-02909
Before I call our next speaker, I remind members that the code of conduct requires that no member in the chamber turn their back on the Presiding Officer. 15:11 I agree with Stewart Maxwell that a range of factors will be important in closing the attainment gap.