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When I was at Glasgow, I worked with Scott Donaldson in developing modules for the chartered teacher programme that were voted to be the most interesting and relevant modules in that programme—much to my embarrassment, because we had just been called in to do a couple of infill, optional modules.
On education, I welcome the initial commitment to 1,000 new teachers and 500 classroom assistants and of course the summer programmes to support recovery in our education system.
If the issue is about member conduct, what Andy Wightman mentioned would be the appropriate way to do it, because it is not dealing with an employee. Specific policies are in place for employees.
There is a really interesting perspective with AI just now. I prefer to call it “assisted technology”, rather than “artificial intelligence”, because I think that the “AI” badge takes it to the wrong place.
The Parliament is ambitious in its aim to end poverty, and it is disheartening when that ambition is frustrated by UK Government policy. It is clear that the assistance offered by the SCP might be limited for some families due to the threshold rules on universal credit.
Discretionary Financial Assistance (Scotland) Revocation Regulations 2024 (SSI 2024/58) Our next item is consideration of a Scottish statutory instrument that is subject to the negative procedure, the purpose of which is to bring the discretionary housing payments scheme under the control of the Scottish ministers and to allow them to issue Scotland-specif...
Legal Aid and Advice and Assistance (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) (No 2) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/333) The eighth item on the agenda is the final piece of subordinate legislation that we are considering today.