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Do the witnesses recognise that some of the Scottish Government’s aims and ambitions that the framework highlights conflict? For example, how does the action to support the whisky industry in order to provide sources of local employment line up with the public health aim to reduce alcohol consumption? That equally applies with regard to other areas that we have spoken about today, such as road building, and their impact on public health. Do you feel that public health should be prioritised over some of those other aims?

In the current context, different schools are working in different ways, depending on their Covid situation. How difficult is it to take a whole-family approach when one child might be in secondary school and one child in primary school, or when different children might be at different stages of education?

That is great—thank you.

Has the pandemic undermined attempts to take a whole-family approach? Are schools finding it more difficult to engage with parents after remote learning? Mike Corbett, I will come to you first.

Cabinet secretary, will implementation of the framework impact on parliamentary scrutiny and decision making in the policy area? If so, what impact will it have?

In general, the pandemic has obviously had an effect on increasing workloads and things like that, but the growing number of young people who need support has probably impacted it, too.

That would be great.

Thank you, cabinet secretary. That is all from me, convener.

In its submission, the Royal College of Psychiatrists said that there is

“a wide variation by health board in how even CAMHS set its expectation for who would likely need care in its services”

and that that is dependent on particular geographies and availability of resource. To what extent does regional variation impact rejected referrals? That question is for Joanne Smith.

I have heard from the social care sector that increasing workloads and reduced—[Inaudible.]—have undermined its ability to build relationships with the young people, families and carers who it works with and to make early interventions. How has that affected the wellbeing of care-experienced young people? I put that to Lucy Hughes.