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(S1O-5857) It is clear that it is important to get the balance right between young peoples' work experience, the financial benefit they gain from working and their school achievement.
The use of plain and basic English might help get through the difficulty. We might suggest wording such as "at the start of the locally arranged term".
Those discussions with Westminster are constructive and helpful.I will not introduce a jarring note by talking about the SNP's inability to get its arithmetic right. There is no gap in our funding proposals.
Any consent to an increase in class sizes is temporary, and allows the school to get organised so that it can deliver lower class sizes by the target date that we have set.
We have agreed a meeting of the anti-poverty strategy group—at last. Getting the five people together has been the most difficult aspect of that, but we will meet next week and report to the committee.