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We already have evidence that guidance on school exclusions, for example, is treated as guidance only and that there are lots of anecdotal accounts of young people being—for want of a better word—illegally excluded from school for a variety of reasons.
In relation to offshore wind and ScotWind, when Crown Estate Scotland issues leases, or options to lease, it does not take account of community benefit, and nor does Marine Scotland when it issues consents for those schemes.
Can we note that the Scottish Government has in its response undertaken to remedy those points by laying an amending instrument to come into force at the same time as the regulations, and can we welcome such a speedy amendment?