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Although I support the establishment of that group, I share the concerns of a number of members about how realistic it is to expect the group to produce recommendations within a year.
Obviously, principles do not, in themselves, produce results, but they give us a vision, and having one is a bit like having a climate change target or whatever.
On training for teachers, was there enough training in advance of the SNSAs coming in to help people to understand the data that they were producing? Was the training accessible to classroom teachers?
Amendments 42 to 44 and 47 relate to the guidance that ministers can produce under proposed new section 12IF of the 1978 act, which covers the new staffing duties on health boards and the Common Services Agency.
Is the risk of the teacher’s judgment being imperfect at that early stage greater than the risk of the test producing a false positive or false negative?
I do not dispute anything that Willie Rennie has said so far but, every year, on the production of my draft budget, I also produce the scorecard on the national outcomes and performance against those.