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Protection of Children (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 The committee is taking oral evidence on the general principles of the Protection of Children (Scotland) Bill at stage 1.
In previous evidence, some of which you have sat through, we have heard that it is not only about people leaving Scotland to go elsewhere but about bringing people into Scotland—the weekend and short-break tourism markets.
It is of particular concern that, while the suicide rate appears to be flattening out in England and Wales, in Scotland it continues to increase. What makes Scotland different?
Those two completely different but long-established systems have completely different ways of dealing with public complaints. In Scotland, our system is somewhere in between—it is a mixture of both.