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Two years ago, Police Scotland’s award-winning get help or get caught campaign targeted people who might seek to groom children online or in real life.
As a result, there is now a focus on after-school activities, but pupils who are from a rural area and have to travel miss out because they have to get the bus home.
If we are just given that information, it would make life a lot easier than just referring to some “ongoing activities”. You are bound to get a question on something like that because it is so vague, and we are talking nearly £30 million.
I realised that many people, including you, would now be entering a concerted effort to get their views over to the public. Today, I have this wonderful opportunity to get a view over to you.
I wonder whether, for our first session, it would be useful to get an update from the panel, just to help to shape our work, as we have such a lot in our brief.
The Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 replaced previous legislation covering pet sales and dog breeding.