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One of the big issues for us has been around media portrayal and young people seeing women who are able to do the job. We are working with a drama producer to celebrate the 10th year of the women’s development forum—and I think it is the 100th anniversary of women in policing.
However, the profile of the community has changed significantly since the report was produced. The report was based on the evidence and experience of Scottish Travellers.
Also, you state:“There is a need for evidence-based analysis of the programmes and services which contribute most effectively to prevention.”What should the Government or the Parliament do to produce that? That is a perfectly fair question and a very big one, if I may say so.
On accommodation for Gypsy Travellers, we could say at national level that every local authority must produce one permanent transit site—if that is the right term—within two years.
There is a lot of objective evidence produced for that. Elected members have generally been slow to engage with the process and have tended not to get involved in whether resources such as fire stations and firefighters should be in one location rather than another.
I understand that there will be a meeting on Thursday 6 December for which the various participants have suggested that they will produce further work. Is it agreed to refer the petition to the Local Government and Regeneration Committee?
We work in an industry where all those matters—the amount of moneys that programmes cost and are bought and sold for by independent producers, and the amount that individual members of staff work for—are kept entirely confidential across the industry.
That was the largest ever demonstration at Holyrood, and more than 3,000 cyclists took part.The pedal on Parliament group has produced an eight-point manifesto. The points are:“1.