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Finfish aquaculture
Salmon and sea trout farming, or aquaculture, in Scotland developed in the 1970s, since which Scotland has become the largest producer of farmed Atlantic salmon in the EU, producing more than 162,000 tonnes in 2016.
As far as risk assessment is concerned, Margaret Mitchell will be aware that we have produced a draft for consultation of the new national child protection guidance, in which we focus very much on risk identification and assessment.
If the committee tries to be strategic, over the next three months we could produce something helpful that will be very different from the report that we might have written a year ago.
You have said that COSLA will measure that. Will COSLA produce a report card at the end of each year, showing what individual councils have achieved or what they are on course to achieve?
The work that was done on reserved functions is another output of the same group that produced the chief social work officer paper and which will be producing a practice governance framework.
I ask you to recall that the figures that inform us are coming from the UK Committee on Climate Change and the inventory that has been produced at UK level. We are not producing our own.