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Ruth Maguire would like to come in with a supplementary question on that theme, before we move forward.

I know that colleagues will come in on the specific theme of the education reform agenda, so you will be able to elaborate on that.

There are a couple of supplementary questions.

I will bring in Pam Duncan-Glancy. Thank you for your patience.

You have already touched on my next question, Nicola. Under the curriculum for excellence and, in particular, the broad general education, teachers and schools are expected to determine the curriculum. How do you ensure that, within that education space, schools are consistently directing towards the five elements that are listed in article 29 of the UNCRC?

On that note of making sure that children’s voices are heard, we will conclude our question session. I thank you for your evidence this morning.

That concludes the public part of our proceedings. We will suspend the meeting to allow our witnesses to leave and then we will move into private session to consider our final agenda items. Thanks very much.

I have some questions. Before I ask specifically about the Promise, I want to ask about those whom you consulted. I am looking for some more information about how you involved care-experienced children in developing your strategy.

I cannot speak too much about the detail, but we heard that the Promise is great, but there was generally a “but” afterwards. It is great to have a visionary and whole-system approach, but when it comes to how that impacts on young people, that is quite disconnected from reality.

Will your office be monitoring progress on the ground? What work will that involve, so that we have the evidence to challenge the reality?

Okay—thank you. We look forward to seeing that develop over next wee while.

The video was too far away for me to read the subtitles, but I will look at it again later.

You have a wee think about anything else you want to ask, Willie. Stephanie Callaghan has a supplementary.