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This is about all our young people doing the best that they can do, which has to be about the best pathways for every young person and not about “badge collecting”, as a headteacher put it to me recently.
I understand that this is to be Gordon’s last meeting with us. We wish you all the very best. Thank you. We now move into private. 09:00 Meeting continued in private until 11:16.
Oliver recognised the importance of the committee’s work and was a dedicated member of it. We wish him all the best for the future. The first item of business is to decide whether to take item 3 in private.
On behalf of the committee, I place on record our thanks to Fiona Hyslop for her work in this session as a member of the committee. We send her our best wishes in her new role. Our first item of business is a decision to take items 3 and 5 in private.
I thank Pam for her valuable contribution to the committee’s work during this parliamentary session, and I am sure that all members will join me in wishing her all the best in her new role. Our first agenda item is to decide whether to take in private agenda item 3, under which the committee will consider the evidence that it will hear today.
As there are no other comments from members, I thank you all very much and say once again that I am absolutely looking forward to working with you all on what I believe will be the best committee in the Parliament. Not only do I have the best constituency, but I now have the best committee.