In the previous session, this committee heard from a Queen Margaret University professor who told us how delays to health visitor referrals have increased the average age of referral from just under three to over four, which leads to a really serious problem in the pre-school phase. The letter from Kim Hartley mentions“median waits for Children up to 27 weeks with a maximum of 81 weeks”.If there is a waiting time of 27 to 81 weeks in a pre-school situation, that means that those children will enter school facing very serious drawbacks.We need to have a thorough look at the matter and go into those issues in a great deal more detail.