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Perhaps we can talk to the committee clerk and the Education and Skills Committee about how we might best present that information to those committees as well as to MSPs more widely. That would be very welcome.
I have received apologies from Pauline McNeill MSP and Alison Johnstone MSP. Item 1 on our agenda is the continuation of evidence on the Social Security (Scotland) Bill.
Secondly, neither I, as the constituency MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, nor any of the MSPs for the North East Scotland region, have intervened citing a bounden duty to do so.
We have talked about investment and a commitment to doubling the sports budget, which has been on the decline since I have been an MSP. Guess what? There are outcomes from that.
The amendments that I have lodged might sound familiar—they were first proposed by Andy Wightman MSP during the passage of the Scottish Crown Estate Bill but were ruled out of scope because that bill dealt with the management rather than the ownership of Crown property.
In 2022, the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland and, I believe, Natalie Don MSP were told that there were 645 movements over three seasons.
Some of the inspection results, which we can talk about, provide some examples of good practice. I am sure that, as MSPs, you visit schools in your local areas and see good examples of that as well.
If we were to fund such a trial in South Lanarkshire the next element would be to gather more monitoring information, to enable us to better understand who was being supported, cross-reference that data and triangulate it with our PREVENT1 data and our HL1 homeless applications. It is a big issue, which all MSPs and councillors are dealing with.