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We understand why that was the situation traditionally and that made perfect sense, but we live in a digital age now and certainly the main campaigners—maybe not so much the smaller ones—are doing everything on computer systems.
We have a broad range of grounds of referral to the children’s hearings system that cover a range of issues and difficulties that come up in children’s and young people’s lives. 10:15 We are not seeking additional powers in relation to the hearings system.
With children, we are much more focused now on why and what sits behind what they have done? What is happening in their lives? What are their wellbeing needs?
Should the courts be able to impose sanctions and remedies in the shape of financial penalties on the Scottish ministers and public bodies in the event of a failure to properly apply environmental law, as is currently the case with the EU? We have live examples of that, which I will not go into because of the time.
That was not the case in the 1980s when I lived there: trade policy then was very controversial, but now there are provincial interests but not differences on the principle of free trade.
There will be huge changes for the fishing industry. We can still live through some sort of transition period, but we will then take control out to 200 miles and I would argue that that is indisputable.
Are you seeking guidance about both the law and the code of practice that you would expect to give you back-up? In your daily lives in schools, where you work with very young people, does having to do more paperwork place a greater burden on you?
Would it be beneficial to people in Scotland who, as Graham Simpson has said, might be making the biggest purchase of their lives to have confidence that an impartial service such as building control—and I will call it “impartial”—is doing far more inspections than it does at the moment?