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We have a few more minutes to discuss LOIPs. Does anyone else want to comment?

It is interesting to hear your perspective on the cluttered landscape of plans and strategies and how we can get coherence across them, not just in relation to community planning partnerships, but across the field.

Our next theme is measuring impact. Marie McNair, who is joining us online, will lead on that.

I will have to wind up this discussion and move on, as we are scooting quite far past our time for this session.

I want to direct another question to Police Scotland and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. Section 16 of the 2015 act places a duty on the Scottish Government to promote community planning. We are interested to hear to what extent that happens in, for example, ministerial letters of guidance, budget decisions or national strategies. Do you have a sense of that? I will go to Mark, and then to Valerie.

It is heartening to hear that there is a framework that puts that partnership work right at the centre.

Thank you very much for that. That brings us to the end of the session. It has been interesting to hear from all of you the different experiences of community planning work and how embedded it is. Clearly, there is a bit of a direction of travel, and the challenge is how to get everybody round the table and not to have an overwhelming strategy plan, as I think somebody said, so that people feel that they can get the action on the ground. It seems to be a dynamic process, and it has been really good to hear from all of you today.

I now suspend the meeting to allow for a change of witnesses.

Thanks for that. Annie, do you have any more questions?

Thanks, Valerie. It is really interesting to hear that Police Scotland has a design team. I love that.

Thanks for that, Eann. Just for a little bit of clarity, when you talk about area plans, what kind of geography are you covering?

Thanks very much for that.

We will move on to prevention. I am interested in hearing from Karen Jackson first. To what extent has your organisation taken a more preventative approach since the 2015 act was passed? What role have LOIPs and community planning had in your organisation’s consideration of prevention?