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The ultimate sanction will be through the Scottish ministers receiving the biennial report of activity. If that report was not available, it would be for ministers to intervene as they thought appropriate.
That knowledge should feed into local authorities in some way, so that it can be used to best effect. That is what we should seek to get out of our consideration of the petitions.
We will investigate who might be an appropriate adviser. As the weeks go on, it gets more difficult because there is so much activity around some of the subject areas that it is hard to find an adviser who is not involved elsewhere.