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The existing text would then go on to say that,"where there is openness, ‘leaks' of information are not an issue. Many of the ills listed in the Code of Conduct arising from restricting the open flow of material are therefore avoided."
Such legislation will create a whole panoply of laws, regulations, codes, guidelines, rights, duties, exemptions, exceptions, provisos, conditions and qualifications that will turn our countryside into a legal battleground.
First, in relation to the role of the existing Commissioner for Public Appointments, only about a third of public appointments in Scotland currently come under her ambit and the code of conduct and open, democratic, transparent process of appointment that she insists upon.
How many more of those targets will not be met? Apart from a code of conduct for local government, there are no initiatives to address the failures of predominantly Labour-controlled councils.
Those issues are very relevant to the wider debate on looked-after children, and we shall return to them.The biggest sin of omission in the bill, however, is the failure to give a voice to the children who are involved in the adoption process.
The Executive's shameful position, whereby it has cowered behind the Westminster Government and constantly cried that such powers are reserved, can be aptly summed up by Abraham Lincoln's phrase:"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."
The evidence for where the comfort may lie in our avoiding the sins of the past haunting us in the future is in the numbers that Stuart Smith and David Bolton are producing.
Nothing can be worse than coming upon someone in the street who has sinned against one's family.We will make it an offence for those convicted of serious sexual offences to contact their victims without the prior consent of the victim.