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That leadership has been seen in the past weeks and months and was seen again yesterday, so we should celebrate what is being done and we should be glad that work is being done to improve things.
Mr Campbell should contact the Borders Forest Trust, which has been on the go for 20 years. The trust is celebrating that anniversary tonight in the Parliament—I am hosting that in the members’ room at 6 o’clock, so everybody can come along to hear about how that has been happening for 20 years.
Aberlour, which last night held a reception to mark 140 years of supporting Scotland’s young people, and Action for Children, which recently celebrated its 60th year of supporting Scotland’s young people, are two other well-established children’s charities that back the measures.
This did not make it into our report, but there is a case for recognising that we should celebrate the diversity and multiplicity of organisations that engage in community justice, instead of talking about a crowded or cluttered landscape.
However, we now see an enormous increase in the number of elderly people. As Jim Hume said, we can celebrate that, but nonetheless that brings with it challenges for the future.
The people who supply that sort of work, such as the staff of Cordia, who provided the care for the man with MND, are fantastic, and we need to celebrate what they do. However, we need a lot more of them, and that is a macroeconomic issue.
We have talked about the reduction over time—I do not want it to become a cause célèbre in its own right—in the number of health boards and area drug and therapeutics committees to try to evolve a more universal approach to prescribing that, we hope, will be less of a postcode lottery.
Those past achievements should rightly be celebrated but, more important, current successes such as the development of next-generation prosthetic limbs by Touch Bionics and hybrid buses by Alexander Dennis are at the forefront of research and development in the world today.