The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.
The Official Report search offers lots of different ways to find the information you’re looking for. The search is used as a professional tool by researchers and third-party organisations. It is also used by members of the public who may have less parliamentary awareness. This means it needs to provide the ability to run complex searches, and the ability to browse reports or perform a simple keyword search.
The web version of the Official Report has three different views:
Depending on the kind of search you want to do, one of these views will be the best option. The default view is to show the report for each meeting of Parliament or a committee. For a simple keyword search, the results will be shown by item of business.
When you choose to search by a particular MSP, the results returned will show each spoken contribution in Parliament or a committee, ordered by date with the most recent contributions first. This will usually return a lot of results, but you can refine your search by keyword, date and/or by meeting (committee or Chamber business).
We’ve chosen to display the entirety of each MSP’s contribution in the search results. This is intended to reduce the number of times that users need to click into an actual report to get the information that they’re looking for, but in some cases it can lead to very short contributions (“Yes.”) or very long ones (Ministerial statements, for example.) We’ll keep this under review and get feedback from users on whether this approach best meets their needs.
There are two types of keyword search:
If you select an MSP’s name from the dropdown menu, and add a phrase in quotation marks to the keyword field, then the search will return only examples of when the MSP said those exact words. You can further refine this search by adding a date range or selecting a particular committee or Meeting of the Parliament.
It’s also possible to run basic Boolean searches. For example:
There are two ways of searching by date.
You can either use the Start date and End date options to run a search across a particular date range. For example, you may know that a particular subject was discussed at some point in the last few weeks and choose a date range to reflect that.
Alternatively, you can use one of the pre-defined date ranges under “Select a time period”. These are:
If you search by an individual session, the list of 成人快手 and committees will automatically update to show only the 成人快手 and committees which were current during that session. For example, if you select Session 1 you will be show a list of 成人快手 and committees from Session 1.
If you add a custom date range which crosses more than one session of Parliament, the lists of 成人快手 and committees will update to show the information that was current at that time.
All Official Reports of meetings in the Debating Chamber of the Scottish Parliament.
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Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 26 October 2022
Sue Webber
Michael, do you have a follow-on question on that topic?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 26 October 2022
Sue Webber
Yes, we can hear you fine.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 26 October 2022
Sue Webber
Thank you for that, Stephanie.
As I was saying, we have probably come to an agreement that we would like to close the petition, but there are some caveats associated with that, because we want to make sure that what is intended in the guidance is what is actually happening in our schools and education establishments.
If we agree to that, there should be two next steps, but please let me know if I am picking this up wrong. We will write to the cabinet secretary with the points that we have outlined. Ultimately, the matter may have to go down a statutory route, but, in the meantime, we want to make sure that the guidance is being embedded in practice. We want to ask the minister what the Government is doing on the on-going monitoring of the implementation of the guidance and on making sure that schools have the resources to fully train teachers and staff. Stephanie Callaghan has also reinforced the issue of children with additional support needs.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 26 October 2022
Sue Webber
Which part specifically?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 26 October 2022
Sue Webber
As members have no more comments, do we all agree with Ross Greer鈥檚 suggestion?
Members indicated agreement.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 26 October 2022
Sue Webber
Stephen Kerr can ask a very short question.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 26 October 2022
Sue Webber
We have all forgotten how to do hybrid meetings.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 26 October 2022
Sue Webber
Stewart鈥攐ver to you.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 5 October 2022
Sue Webber
I like a yes or no answer鈥攊t is good to be concise.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 5 October 2022
Sue Webber
That goes back to some of the questions that we asked about lost learning and about how colleges are expected to take up the slack.