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I would hope that everybody would have the child’s interests at the forefront. However, with the best will in the world, two organisations might believe that they had the child’s best interests at the forefront.
However, leaving no flexibility would not be in the best interests of the child. I agree that, in the vast majority of situations, those people would be the professionals who are best placed to fulfil that role.
I think that we would all agree that that is not the best basis for policy making. Should the extremely important issue of maintenance of assets be properly researched?
On victims, you referred to the new statement of prosecution, which states that under the UNCRC the best interests of the reported child and of other children should be given primary consideration.
That is that appropriate clinically led planning for services is undertaken at a level that is best aligned to the size of the population that will make use of those services.
Instead, it is about how we invest the time of our analysts and the analysts that the committee has met to best produce the data and analysis that can give the best understanding of what is going on in Scotland.
We took an evidence-based approach to deliver our best estimates of the costings and resource implications, which are set out in the financial memorandum.