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It is incumbent on those who are charged with overseeing the SPFM to think about not just what is there but what other scenarios might unfold, to allow for the SPFM to be a living document that can be useful in a range of different scenarios.
However, the last counties did not come on to the land register until 2001, so we have had only just over 20 years of transactions for those counties, and lots of people live in a property for more than 20 years.
A big part of our office’s role is to ensure that we have live, truthful data about what is really happening for children and young people in Scotland.
On your second question, which was on learning, we are always open to the need for a greater degree of recognition of the lived experience of local authorities.
I will start with a bit of a confession: I worked for the SLCC when it first went live. I found that doing so, and having to write policies and procedures, with so much being set out in the 2007 act was not quite impossible but was extremely challenging.
The RSR plans are helpful as a starting point, in a sense, but keeping them up to date is a live process. That links in with what I said earlier about prioritisation.
Obviously, in Scotland, there are a number of definitions of a child, and there are age-based laws that allow, for example, 16-year-olds to live independently, but complexity does not necessarily mean incoherence.