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The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 10 December 2024
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Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]

Education (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 2 October 2024

Willie Rennie

You provide leadership, too, and you listen to what people say.

Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]

Education (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 2 October 2024

Willie Rennie

This is a devil’s advocate’s question. Is all this not getting a bit too much? Every representative before us today is arguing for having more than one space on all the different committees. We will end up with a massive organisation that is completely unwieldy, will we not? Megan Farr’s solution of having what is almost a separate structure for children in order to ensure that they are listened to in a different forum might be the way of doing it. To lead an organisation with everybody having the absolute representation that they think they deserve is surely a bit too much.

Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]

Education (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 2 October 2024

Willie Rennie

That is fair enough. How is the relationship between those who are appointees to support national qualifications and the existing staff managed? Is it a good relationship?

Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]

Education (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 2 October 2024

Willie Rennie

So there are no tensions between those two groups.

Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]

Education (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 2 October 2024

Willie Rennie

To go back to my first point, which your last comment agreed with, this is about leadership and not about staff. Should the leadership of the SQA remain in place as the leadership of the new qualifications Scotland?

Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]

Education (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 2 October 2024

Willie Rennie

That sounds as if you are going to dodge it.

Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]

Education (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 2 October 2024

Willie Rennie

Will you ask now?

Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]

Education (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 2 October 2024

Willie Rennie

You do not always wait to survey members before you express a view.

Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]

Education (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 2 October 2024

Willie Rennie

It would be just the way I have asked it.

Education, Children and Young People Committee

Education (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 25 September 2024

Willie Rennie

That is quite interesting. I understand your point about the model being voluntary versus there being another approach, but you are indicating that, if there is an issue of public confidence, perhaps that function could be separated and put into another body.