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One of the key challenges is that schools lack resources. Teachers often lack both pre-service and in-service training, and they do not really have the support to promote positive health and wellbeing.
The number of payroll employees was a record 29 million, which surpassed pre-pandemic levels. Do we have a problem with a labour shortages or a skills gap?
It will keep the impetus and drive going so that we can develop a package of funded measures in time for COP26. I certainly do not expect you to pre-empt the decisions or recommendations of the board.
SCRUTINISING THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT'S BUDGET
The Committee recommends that its successor consider how it can best focus its efforts when carrying out pre-budget scrutiny and it should consider how it can assess the impact of this work on the final budget.
The crisis has highlighted and deepened pre-pandemic concerns about the fragmented nature of children and young people's services in some parts, particularly in the areas of special and additional needs.
The Scottish Parliament agreed on 3 March 2021 to vary Standing Orders so that committees could not meet during the pre-election campaign period (with the exception of the COVID-19 Committee, which may be convened in an emergency).
The purported approval requirement is not, either on its own terms or by virtue of ILRA, a pre-condition to the making of an instrument of the type in view.