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Will you explain in more detail the appeals process, how often it is used and how you work towards the Scottish regulators’ strategic code of practice? I will start on that and let Michael Cameron go into some more detail.
It would be remiss of me not to point out to the committee the existence of Social Security Scotland’s “Code of Practice for Investigations”, chapter 3 of which sets out what a person should expect if they are being investigated.
Yes, absolutely and you will see a section for that in the CSP template in the code of practice. We are getting better at understanding that children have views and will express them if you give them the space to do that and if you respect the way in which they want to do it.
We continue to work to ensure that the data that goes into those systems is coded consistently, so that we are comparing apples with apples rather than apples with pears.
There could be a viva—an oral discussion—with the pupil about why they chose to make a certain argument and whether they thought about a certain issue. When students write code, I ask, “Why did you choose that design rather than this design?
Michelle Thomson talked about its impenetrability: people cannot possibly understand it. It is a bit like the UK tax code in that it is so complex. That cannot be good for transparency and accountability.
I am talking not just about land purchase for nature or carbon codes but about some quite big private investment—capital investment—in land use change.
Did you consider the National Working Terrier Federation’s code of conduct in coming to the conclusion that one dog below ground should be the maximum?