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Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 Good morning and welcome to the fifth meeting in 2024 of the Criminal Justice Committee.
Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 Good morning, and welcome to the fourth meeting in 2024 of the Criminal Justice Committee.
The fact that the Government has decided to look at the urban waste water treatment regulations in the round is positive. In late 2023 and early 2024, it consulted on an approach to managing waste water, and that set out quite clearly some of the challenges that the water industry faces.
We spoke earlier about the benefits that the Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024 has realised. I was on the Education, Children and Young People Committee when that bill went through stages 1 and 2.
—Official Report, House of Lords, 29 February 2024; Vol 836, c 193GC. I agree. 13:47 I have listened very carefully to the powerful contributions from across the chamber this afternoon, and I align myself with most of them.
It is why we are investing in the most generous free school meals provision of any nation in the United Kingdom. The 2024-25 budget also commits to further roll-out in relation to the Scottish childcare element of that.
The three-year UNCRC implementation programme is set to conclude in March 2024. Together Scotland, alongside other organisations, has asked for that timeframe to be extended.