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In my experience, joint ministerial committees were always about co-ordinating policy. For example, Gordon Brown effectively co-ordinated policy on child poverty across all the nations.
I can speak with some confidence about no-deal planning up to the end of March 2019, because I was responsible for its co-ordination. That work started very early, and we were planning for not just a no-deal exit, but exit with a deal.
I presume that we do not want 32 different models, with some children perhaps getting better education than others. What co-ordination is taking place to ensure that every child across Scotland gets the same amount and quality of teaching?
When a threat is so great and overwhelming, the state is the only actor that is big enough to co-opt, co-ordinate, compel and direct all the multicoloured strands of our response.
Maybe there is a role for the ambassadors and the co-ordinators to play in helping to provide motivation and spreading the message among parents and the wider communities in such far-flung areas.