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Today, we are debating the same issue in the middle of an Education and Skills Committee inquiry into this area, which only began just before the Easter recess and has not yet heard from teachers, local authorities, the SQA or the cabinet secretary.
(S5O-02333) Almost 20,000 people responded to our consultation on Lord Bonomy’s recommendations, and the analysis of those responses was published just before the summer recess. At that point, I was appointed Minister for Rural Affairs and the Natural Environment.
Perhaps it was unwise for the First Minister rather to sneer at other Governments for making up dates when the dates that she set last week have not lasted seven days.
Our economy is stagnating and the truth is that we are flirting with recession. Gross domestic product for the previous quarter showed growth of a mere 0.3 per cent.
It found no evidence internationally of a so-called slippery slope in terms of eligibility criteria expanding over time in models that were based on terminal illness and mental capacity. That dates back to Oregon’s passage of its legislation in the 1990s, through to more recent examples in Australia.
We decided to offer our teacher training course to every teaching professional working in primary and secondary education across the curriculum, and we were bowled over by the amount of people who wanted to participate in it. To date, 150 teachers have signed up—and that was with very little advertising at our end.
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of People with Disabilities uses a definition of disability that the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has adopted, so it also applies to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and will, therefore, effectively become part of Scots law on whichever date it is in July. The definition refers to “long-ter...