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As a result, we focused on putting things right. Indeed, that was the best that we could do for 2003-04, which was the year that lay immediately ahead of us.
That working group has drawn up a fairly extensive work plan of good practice and guidance to allow us to consider best practice. We are working on completing some leaflets for tenants who are considering exercising the right to buy.
We have been delivering training based on that publication as best we can. We have provided training to organisations such as the Scottish Rugby Union, the Church of Scotland and the Roman Catholic Church, to help them to develop their own child protection policies, including recruitment and selection procedures and so on.
In fact, we have the best employment rate for 15 to 19-year-olds of any Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development country and the best rate in the developed world.
We believe that we can become that powerhouse. As you mentioned, we have the best natural resources anywhere. The need now is for us to harness those resources to make the best impact, not just for communities in the Highlands and Islands but as a contribution to wider society and to the nation.
That should be the case if it is in the best interests of that child. If I may put the matter this way, I think that the right of the child is to have his or her best interests looked after.
Everyone, of course, deserves the best possible start in life and the chance to develop their talents and interests as fully as possible to the best of their ability, but there is an overwhelming medium and long-term necessity for Scotland.