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We have received no apologies.I also welcome Ruth Cooper, who will formally take up her duties as senior assistant clerk to the committee before our next meeting and who is with us this afternoon to take a first look at how we work.
It would also ensure that we assist children by referring their parents to those programmes, given that children's behaviour is modelled on that of their parents.
Despite my earlier comments, I have to remind committee members yet again of the work programme that we have ahead of us. We have five pieces of legislation to deal with between now and next summer.
I move,That the Parliament welcomes the Executive's commitment in its Programme for Government to introduce a Carers' Strategy for Scotland to assist unpaid carers, and approves the Executive's proposals for that strategy.