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Some of my constituents who live in Ratho, Bonnington Cottages, Hermiston village and Blinkbonny need support for energy efficiency and decarbonisation improvements. Many people are unaware that Home Energy Scotland’s grant and loan scheme offers a rural uplift.
It is important to work with teachers, pupils and schools, but the fact is that we will not build a world-class education system while so many pupils are worried in schools. We need to put discipline and behaviour back on the top of the agenda as a condition of being in school.
I encourage any other colleagues from across the chamber who have had similar experiences—I am sure that there are many of them—to be so kind as to forward information to me on that before the meeting that I hold at the beginning of next month.
For 40 years, our staff and volunteers have sought to love, serve and value people on the margins, labouring together with many partners in our vision of ending homelessness.
It is clear that Parliament needs to see details of phase 3 of the learning estate investment programme, which is now overdue. Too many schools across Scotland are currently in desperate need of upgrading.
I progressed that work in my previous role, alongside Mairi Gougeon—for instance, with a rural visa pilot, which many on the Conservative benches would support, despite the fact that the Secretary of State for Scotland is currently holding it up.
I have been amazed by what my deaf peers have done despite the barriers that too many of them still face. However, statistics show that because I am deaf I am twice as likely to leave school with no qualifications.
The duty of us all, perhaps especially politicians, is to look at the many issues that we face in the world today through the lens of the climate crisis.
Schools (Highlands and Islands) To ask the Scottish Government how many school pupils in the Highlands and Islands are currently being taught in schools that are not of a “good” or “satisfactory” suitability.
I know how difficult that situation is because I represent and live in a rural constituency, where many of the women have to travel long distances to seek specialist cancer treatment.