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When will the Government get on top of workforce planning to ensure that the current situation is not repeated, so that we get the right teachers in the right places?
The organisation runs a range of activities, both online and in-person, online activities which were started during COVID were found to be very beneficial so have been maintained alongside a reintroduced and expanded in-person suite of activities.
The Lobbying (Scotland) Act 2016 places a duty on the Clerk to establish and maintain a lobbying register, which is to contain information about active, inactive and voluntary registrants.
You look at competencies and you do a total at the end, but the person who gets the job is not always the person who gets the highest total of points, because you look at things in the round.
We have made recommendations to that effect. We referred to the pilot activity that is being undertaken. Those are the kinds of steps that the Government, working with partners in local authorities, has to get right with the private providers.
You need somebody to advocate to ensure that they get seen by a postural tachycardia syndrome expert or an endocrine expert, get assessed for mast cell activation syndrome or have whatever done that we will do in order to optimise everybody’s health.
I remember the photo booth, the inflatable bouncy castles—I was really disappointed that I did not get a shot on them—the activities, the sports and the hair and make-up.
We have trams, heavy rail and a road network that can support public transport, including buses, as well as connections into the active travel network. I think that, to that extent, we are getting the balance right.