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I understand all that—I just wanted to understand the breakdown of those 66 patients. Let us go back to the start. How many of the 66 are complex cases and how many are guardianship or code 9 cases?
I do not see the benefit of collecting large amounts of data and reporting it centrally when all that that is likely to do is give us an indication of how many notices there have been in each local authority area, how many have been upheld and how many have not been upheld.
What we have seen in our permanency research is that too many moves are taking place. Too many children are being shuttled between different carers and do not have the stability of having one carer.
By 2018, every nursery in a deprived community will have an additional teacher or childcare graduate to support children’s learning”, how many nurseries currently operate without a fully qualified teacher.
I do not pretend for a minute to have the answer to the question that has been raised here—and elsewhere—about how many of the different methods that exist for teaching literacy and identifying phonemes we should try to teach to one child at the same time.
I look forward to working with you, especially since the committee may have an extended remit, in which many of us have a keen interest.Deputy Convener Deputy Convener Agenda item 3 is the choice of a deputy convener.