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Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]
Session 6 Priorities
Meeting date: 6 October 2021
Stephen Kerr
Did you catch that, cabinet secretary? Did you get a sense of what Mr Ewing said?
Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]
Session 6 Priorities
Meeting date: 6 October 2021
Stephen Kerr
I agree that you are doing the right things, but it is also important to assess what has gone wrong. Things have clearly gone wrong.
Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]
Session 6 Priorities
Meeting date: 6 October 2021
Stephen Kerr
Skills Development Scotland is a national body that is within your remit. It is responsible for skills investment plans and regional skills assessments. Regional skills assessments have been conducted for Edinburgh and south-east Scotland, Highlands and Islands, and Aberdeen city and shire. When will regional skills assessments will be conducted for the rest of Scotland?
Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]
Session 6 Priorities
Meeting date: 6 October 2021
Stephen Kerr
Bob Doris and Stephanie Callaghan have supplementary questions. I know that they will be mindful of time.
Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]
Session 6 Priorities
Meeting date: 6 October 2021
Stephen Kerr
Sure, but what about the young people? What did the sub-group say that having to wear face coverings for many hours a day is doing to young people?
Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]
Session 6 Priorities
Meeting date: 6 October 2021
Stephen Kerr
There will be costs, will there not? All those things inevitably carry costs.
Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]
Session 6 Priorities
Meeting date: 6 October 2021
Stephen Kerr
Might there be savings, then?
Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]
Session 6 Priorities
Meeting date: 6 October 2021
Stephen Kerr
As you will be aware, the Supreme Court this morning unanimously decided that four provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill and two provisions of the European Charter of Local Self-Government (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill are outside the competence of the Scottish Parliament. When did your office first receive legal advice that that was the most likely outcome of the case?
Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]
Session 6 Priorities
Meeting date: 6 October 2021
Stephen Kerr
I hear what you are saying, but would you mind if I ask you the same question again? What is your analysis of what has been preventing us from training until now? You have talked a lot about the present and the future, but why do such skills shortages go back so far? Let me ask you a blunt question: is Skills Development Scotland fulfilling its role? Should you be looking closely at that organisation in the same way as we are looking at the Scottish Qualifications Authority and Education Scotland?
10:15Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]
Session 6 Priorities
Meeting date: 6 October 2021
Stephen Kerr
It is clear that we all have our own local interests at heart. I am particularly keen to know when Central Scotland will figure in that vital work.
