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As with the regulatory scheme for confirmation services, it will include qualifying criteria and training requirements, a code of practice and complaints procedures and sanctions.
Putting in place the suppression system would have been the first thing to be done in terms of building management. The joint code of practice on the prevention of fires in construction sites, which is often referred to, is all about commissioning as early as possible.
From our perspective, the tools fit nicely with our codes of practice on the values, behaviours, skills and competencies that workers are required to have in delivering care.
The matter was not called up as a potential breach of the code of conduct. Perhaps more importantly, Scotland’s chief statistician did not say anything.
The consultations are well summarised in the SPICe note, but I draw the committee’s attention to the consultation on the broadcasting code review, which will see the application in full of the existing code to BBC broadcasting services and, where relevant, to on-demand programme services.
We also need for schools to have a very clear understanding and clear behavioural codes about what behaviours are not acceptable and why—the why is really important.
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Date answered:
1 August 2008