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I think that it would be reasonable to bring in Audrey Cumberford, given her lived experience of what we are discussing.

It is quite disappointing that, all these years into the process, we are still in this situation.

I have one further small supplementary question. Earlier, Nora Senior gave the example of Fife College receiving a higher level of funding than Edinburgh. Is that to do with rurality? What is the basis of it?

That is very useful. Would it be fair to say that colleges need to tweak their curriculums and that there needs to be a change in culture and attitude in universities?

With respect, despite the number of years that you have been working on this collectively, Sir Peter Scott still produced a report that suggests that progress has been “glacial”—I think that he used that word earlier. It has been slow, has it not?

That reflects positively on the Scottish Government.

Jonathan Broadbery, what is your view of how the process works in practice?

I appreciate that.

The response of the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills to the article in The Times indicated that there might be shortcomings in the legislation in England in relation to the oversight of such places. It is not unreasonable to suggest that, down south, there might be a push to clamp down on them in the short to medium term. If that leads to an upsurge in applications for such placements from England while the primary legislation is going through the Scottish Parliament, are we geared up to cope?

Can you furnish us with any examples of where the relationship between individual local authorities and your members has been particularly challenging?

I thank everybody for their answers. On the basis of some of what we have heard, it seems that the progress that has been made is all the more remarkable.