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A new report that came out just this weekend—the latest update to the “Local indicators of child poverty after housing costs” statistics, produced by the centre for research in social policy at Loughborough University—shows the devastating effect of the savage two-child limit.
In particular, a colleague of mine in the SPS produced, in tandem with the Scottish Government and the Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice, an evidence paper that sets out all the needs and issues that the children have.
More than two in five had been subjected to verbal aggression and 14 per cent said that they had been physically threatened or assaulted when making a journey on public transport. Transport Scotland produced a very useful report in June last year.
Just last Friday, I visited one of our largest food producers, which was very clear that Brexit was the catalyst for the problems that it faces with recruitment.
That has spurred other innovations in pure research and in broader policy areas and has produced further discussion. I am comfortable with the achievements that we have made and the policy ecosystem that supports that, but the challenge is growing.
I understand that the committee is reviewing the task force report, which was produced some time ago. The committee may want to have a separate dialogue with the funding council about its relationship with colleges once the council's corporate plan has been produced.
As a consequence of those negotiations, a statement of principles was produced, which was meant to form the basis for further, more detailed negotiations in an effort to resolve the matter.