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One of the new initiatives in the sector over the past year or so has been the code of good governance. A significant element of that concerns the effectiveness of a board, so the board delayed implementing or looking at certain aspects of the code until the new board was in place.
It is structured around four or five main headlines, which are drawn directly from the code of audit practice that frames how an external audit of a public body in Scotland is undertaken.
We need to tread with a degree of caution on that. It must be a code of practice and no more. It should be about enabling farmers and crofters to take up practices that will suit the code of practice and the outcomes that we are trying to get to, rather than being overly prescriptive.
The language within the bill itself should be strengthened, and not left to a future code of practice. That is helpful. I think that those comments are fair enough.
Previously, they would have been recorded as some kind of authorised absence under a different code. Obviously, we therefore expected the recording to not necessarily be great for the first few years, because it is a new code and schools are getting used to how to record a part-time timetable.
Our sector is coming to us as the industry trade body to say, “We need better coding skills and we need fundamental computing science and software engineering skills so that we can invest in, harness and nurture young people once they are in the industry.”
It is worth reflecting that, in the code red report, which was published earlier this year, the warning from the IPCC is that we will be reaching 1.5° of warming within the next decade.