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If we are going to have the type of conversation that we should have about improving our education and skills system, we must bear in mind that we already have strong underpinnings. 15:36 MSPs have described how they feel that Scotland’s skills system is failing too many young people and is holding back our economic growth.
The Promise is not just about the Government, it is about all of society. As MSPs, we need to check that our children’s services are including the Promise as a priority, as it should be, and encourage them to do so if not.
First—I looked this up before I came to today’s meeting—the child poverty targets were unanimously agreed by Parliament, so every MSP who was in Parliament in 2017 voted for them.
We have worked with medical schools to ensure that the training and education are in place to continue that programme in the future. As an MSP for South Scotland, I am acutely aware of the particular challenges that our health service faces in rural areas.
We have had correspondence with Kaukab Stewart in her MSP capacity in the past few weeks about the G1 to G5 postcodes, because people were not getting the service that they needed.