The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.
The Official Report search offers lots of different ways to find the information you’re looking for. The search is used as a professional tool by researchers and third-party organisations. It is also used by members of the public who may have less parliamentary awareness. This means it needs to provide the ability to run complex searches, and the ability to browse reports or perform a simple keyword search.
The web version of the Official Report has three different views:
Depending on the kind of search you want to do, one of these views will be the best option. The default view is to show the report for each meeting of Parliament or a committee. For a simple keyword search, the results will be shown by item of business.
When you choose to search by a particular MSP, the results returned will show each spoken contribution in Parliament or a committee, ordered by date with the most recent contributions first. This will usually return a lot of results, but you can refine your search by keyword, date and/or by meeting (committee or Chamber business).
We’ve chosen to display the entirety of each MSP’s contribution in the search results. This is intended to reduce the number of times that users need to click into an actual report to get the information that they’re looking for, but in some cases it can lead to very short contributions (“Yes.”) or very long ones (Ministerial statements, for example.) We’ll keep this under review and get feedback from users on whether this approach best meets their needs.
There are two types of keyword search:
If you select an MSP’s name from the dropdown menu, and add a phrase in quotation marks to the keyword field, then the search will return only examples of when the MSP said those exact words. You can further refine this search by adding a date range or selecting a particular committee or Meeting of the Parliament.
It’s also possible to run basic Boolean searches. For example:
There are two ways of searching by date.
You can either use the Start date and End date options to run a search across a particular date range. For example, you may know that a particular subject was discussed at some point in the last few weeks and choose a date range to reflect that.
Alternatively, you can use one of the pre-defined date ranges under “Select a time period”. These are:
If you search by an individual session, the list of MSPs and committees will automatically update to show only the MSPs and committees which were current during that session. For example, if you select Session 1 you will be show a list of MSPs and committees from Session 1.
If you add a custom date range which crosses more than one session of Parliament, the lists of MSPs and committees will update to show the information that was current at that time.
All Official Reports of meetings in the Debating Chamber of the Scottish Parliament.
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Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 26 April 2023
Stephanie Callaghan
Ben Farrugia and Tony Buchanan both mentioned in their submissions that having a single point of contact could be quite important for victims. I suppose that goes back to what Jenny Brotchie said about having that trust in being able to get information about the process.
How important is that? How critical is that? Does that to some extent support the victims so that it is not really about getting too much individual information but about them feeling that they can have trust in the system and that they are being supported through the process?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 26 April 2023
Stephanie Callaghan
Yes, that is great. Stephen Bermingham, do you want to comment?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 26 April 2023
Stephanie Callaghan
Jackie Irvine mentioned ASN and Tony Buchanan spoke about intensive support and intervention. From the evidence that we have heard, it seems that people are trying to get the most out of their time in young offenders institutions and secure care. It seems that, at that point, everything speeds up and a young person can get a diagnosis that, if they had had it earlier, would have perhaps prevented them from ending up in the place that they are in. Does anyone have any comments on that?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 26 April 2023
Stephanie Callaghan
Are there changes that you feel should be made to the bill to emphasise that?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 26 April 2023
Stephanie Callaghan
Thanks for letting me get that on the record.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 18 April 2023
Stephanie Callaghan
When we went to Dunfermline and spoke to some governing bodies, the governing body for rugby told us about flexibility, the social aspects of the game and changes to rules. We also visited Fighting Chance to see judo, and an amazing woman, who was also a professional rugby player and a mum, told me that she went to a variety of judo classes at different levels and was able to take her child along with her so that she could get her fitness back and continue with professional rugby.
We know from the BBC sportswomen’s survey that a quarter of respondents—which is not a lot—said that they felt supported in having a baby and continuing to compete and that a third delayed having a family. Notwithstanding the need for policies and support within sporting organisations, would another part of the solution be to have other sports that women can be involved in and to which they can take their children? Would that contribute to getting them back to being competitive?
I am not sure who would want to pick up that question. Because judo is part of it, perhaps Connie Ramsay can answer.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 29 March 2023
Stephanie Callaghan
That is really helpful, and it goes back to Kate Wallace’s earlier comment about balance and about children who have been harmed having a right to recovery and having agency. You also said that restorative justice has to be victim centred. Could we add anything to the bill that would support that?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 29 March 2023
Stephanie Callaghan
I am interested in victims and I am wondering what you feel would be the impact of the bill in its current form for child victims.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 29 March 2023
Stephanie Callaghan
Are you talking specifically about neurodevelopmental issues?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 29 March 2023
Stephanie Callaghan
Okay. Thank you.