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The Scottish Executive encourages local authorities to support and develop whatever learning and teaching programmes best meet the needs of individual children at the earliest possible stage in their education.
We believe that these matters can best be dealt with by local authorities working with local community groups through cultural planning and the community planning process.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 April 2002
When we write to the minister, we might want to ask him to monitor the scenario throughout Scotland. We have an example of best practice in Glasgow and we, as parliamentarians, would want to be assured that that best practice is being replicated throughout Scotland.
Striking that balance means making the correct judgment, and in matters of judgment fair-minded people can have the best of intentions and still disagree.