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Official Report
Meeting date:
18 November 2020
Meeting of the Parliament (Hybrid) 18 November 2020
Motion, as amended, agreed to, That the Parliament believes that education is best delivered in the classroom, but that making schools safe for pupils, teachers and staff must be a top priority of government during the pandemic; notes that, as of 10 November 2020, 29,486 pupils and 2,615 staff were absent from Scottish schools for COVID-19-related reasons, with absence rates affecting areas with higher levels of deprivation more; expresses concern regarding reports that some school staff have been instructed to turn off the Protect Scotland app when in school and may have felt under pressure to continue to attend schools even when notified by the app of a potential exposure risk; considers it unacceptable that some clinically vulnerable teachers have felt pressured to return to in-person teaching against specific advice from their GPs to the contrary and in the absence of an overall national strategy on how to deal with school staff with chronic or underlying health conditions; calls on the Scottish Government to work with local authorities to ensure that any vulnerable school staff member who is medically unable to attend school in person without being placed at unacceptable risk is better supported to either work from home or in a safer alternative setting, or, if this is not possible, to potentially be placed on leave without loss of income; expresses disappointment in government efforts to adequately prepare resource levels for COVID-19-related staff absences; calls on the Scottish Government to deliver funding for the purpose of recruiting at least an additional 2,000 full-time teachers to ensure that all schools can maintain safe staffing levels while managing absences due to COVID-19, and further calls on the Scottish Government to make regular voluntary COVID-19 testing widely available for asymptomatic staff and senior pupils across all of Scotland's schools; notes that participation rates in online learning during the pandemic have been variable across the country, with some pupils and teachers left without access to adequate digital infrastructure or devices to fully facilitate online learning; further notes that, in the absence of nationally co-ordinated online learning materials to support the curriculum, many young people in Scotland missed out on valuable education despite the best efforts and endeavours of their parents and teachers, and calls on the Scottish Government and its agencies to ensure that no child is left behind if required to study from home, as well as investigating the possibility of resourcing improvements to ventilation in the school estate and producing a report based on Test and Protect that examines infection patterns within school settings.
Official Report
Meeting date:
23 June 2020
Health and Sport Committee 23 June 2020
How will health boards be encouraged to co-operate with one another and share best practice? How will that be overseen and monitored?
Official Report
Meeting date:
5 May 2020
Meeting of the Parliament 05 May 2020
We need to take these decisions very carefully; they need to be informed by the best medical and scientific advice that we have available.
Official Report
Meeting date:
24 March 2020
Finance and Constitution Committee 24 March 2020
It will require a lot of trying to organise these things in the best way possible. We have seen pictures of the London tube, which have caused great concern.
Official Report
Meeting date:
6 February 2020
Meeting of the Parliament 06 February 2020
It makes me immensely proud to join other members in wearing a unity band, which shows the solidarity and unified approach that best represent how we should tackle the disease.
Official Report
Meeting date:
8 January 2020
Finance and Constitution Committee 08 January 2020
Given that—as I said—the result of the general election is that we are leaving the EU, I take it that the Scottish Government will push for an exit from the EU that best protects Scotland’s interests by having much closer alignment to the customs union and the single market.
Official Report
Meeting date:
8 January 2020
Meeting of the Parliament 08 January 2020
At the same time, we need to ask whether we are really doing our best to create a society in which women and girls are not silently bearing the burden of violence and inequality in their physical and mental health.
Official Report
Meeting date:
18 December 2019
Finance and Constitution Committee 18 December 2019
Linking MSPs’ salaries to an index seemed to be the best way of avoiding that. It was then a question of which indexes to use—as you will be well aware, there are a number.
Official Report
Meeting date:
19 November 2019
Health and Sport Committee 19 November 2019
I question how, in health, we are building on the work of such providers and drawing on and bringing in best practice from the private sector.
Official Report
Meeting date:
14 November 2019
Equalities and Human Rights Committee 14 November 2019
We feel that statutory guidance, along with protection orders—which we already have in child protection and other aspects of adult protection—is best. Professionals then know exactly what they need to do and when and how they need to do it.
