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I always try to be realistic.Just yesterday, I attended an event in Largs, at which Arriva announced its support of 16 young people to do a pre-apprenticeship wind technician training course at Fife College.
However, I must raise the issue of gender, because girls are often most adversely affected—perhaps increasingly so as they get into their teens, but in their pre-teen years as well.We ought to make reference to sexting.
Within the past three months, the health board has achieved a full complement of childsmile staff, which, subject to parental consent and child participation, will increase the number of pre-school and primary school children able to access the fluoride varnish programmes.
Even the current SNP Minister for Children and Young People said in the chamber, in 2007, about investing in pre-five children:“we must not waste any more time.”
Do members also agree to report that the regulations could be clearer as to the circumstances in which the pre-notification requirement has been satisfied and therefore when the duty to provide information arises?
It has, as part of my role as Minister for Children and Young People, been a privilege to visit many school and pre-school settings. I have seen at first hand the impact of play-based approaches and of learning outdoors.
I am sure that the committee will understand, frustrating though it may be, that it would not be appropriate for me to pre-empt anything that the First Minister might announce later today during the plenary meeting.
Amendment S5M-22033.4, in the name of Willie Rennie, is pre-empted. Therefore, the next question is, that motion S5M-22033, in the name of Kate Forbes, as amended, on the fiscal implications of Covid-19, be agreed to.