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Some of the criticism that I have heard is that there are teachers but that they are perhaps not at an advanced level of training and, therefore, a young person does not get the full advanced experience that they could get.
However, there is no direct ferry service—there is no way to get to Coll and Tiree directly—so people would have to go through Oban to get back out to those islands.
There are lots of administrative activities that can take place before you reach that point of suspicion—and, indeed, they might well be the foundation for getting to that point.
I find it very straightforward to submit a 'no activity' return. And very straightforward to submit a return for the one or two activities we carry out a year.
Where our on-board crews have been able to carry out such activities, that is what they have been doing, so we have increased some maintenance activities.
We are not experts on what other organisations seek to get out of their activities in schools, but we have done some research on other public service visits to schools.