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The Scottish Government has consulted on the register of child welfare reporters and plans to lay regulations in spring 2022 on the register. Once the regulations are in force there would need to be a lead in time for the register to be fully operational.
Vaccines Taskforce and BEIS provided the following commentary that the UK Government has secured early access to 100 million doses of Valneva’s COVID-19 vaccine across 2021 and 2022. The Prime Minister announced at the G7 on 11 June that the UK will donate 100 million surplus COVID-19 vaccine doses within the next year.
Does the committee also wish to welcome the Scottish Government’s commitment to prepare an amending instrument to rectify that error and take account of any further numbering changes by the time the instrument comes into force on 1 April 2022? No member has indicated that they are not content or that they wish to speak, so that is agreed.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of showpeople being added to the 2022 census, what action it will take to ensure that their children will be added to the SEEMiS educational records in schools.
The minister wrote to us last week, on Thursday 25 April, to advise that the laying date is now due to be between 29 April and 2 May but said that that would not affect the process for the UK Government obtaining the consent of the Scottish ministers.
In writing, we have the option to pose questions or to ask to be kept up to date. If the committee is not content with the proposal, we can make a series of recommendations.
In writing, we have the option to pose questions or to ask to be kept up to date. If the committee is not content with the proposal, we can make a series of recommendations.
Ferry Bookings My constituents cannot book sailings between Shetland and Aberdeen beyond 30 September because Transport Scotland has not opened up the booking system beyond that date. That appears to be a bureaucratic decision that has little to do with meeting the needs of the people who rely on that lifeline service to the Scottish mainland.
Fornethy House Survivors Over 30 years, hundreds—maybe even thousands—of little girls who were sent by the state to Fornethy House residential school for care and nurturing were instead subjected to a catalogue of unimaginable mental, physical and, in some cases, sexual abuse. To date, none of the perpetrators of that abuse has been fully brought to justic...