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9 Event - Scottish Business Crime Centre - Garden Lobby - 18.00
9 Event - Science Question Time - Committee Room 1 - 18.00
9 Event - Stop Homelessness 2011 - Committee Room 2 - 18.00
9 Event - CPG on Town Centres Reception - Committee Room 4 - 18.00
9 Event - Optometry Scotland Parliamentary Dinner - Members’ Restaurant - 18.30
10 Event - STEMNET (Scientists, Technologists, Engineers and Mathematicians) Awards - Committee Room 3 - 12.30
10 Event - European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre - Committee Room 1 - 13.00
10 Event - Celebrating Community Gardens and Farms in Scotland - Garden Lobby - 18.00
10 Event - Ask the Politician: Why Families Matter - Committee Room 1 - 18.00
10 Event - Scottish Out of School Care Network - Committee Room 2 - 18.00
10 Event - CPG on Co-Operatives - Fenwick Weavers Reception - Committee Room 3 - 18.00
14 Event - Scotland’s Futures Forum: National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts -
local community, which it considers is resolutely opposed to this proposed development.
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14-18 Exhibition - Asthma UK - Garden Lobby
14-18 Exhibition - Edinburgh Tenants Federation - MSP Foyer
15 Event - Glasgow Centre for Population Health Presentation - P1.02 - 12.30
15 Event - Scottish Young Consumer 2011 - Committee Room 1 - 18.00
15 Event - Neurological Alliance of Scotland - Committee Room 3 - 18.00
15 Event - Community Engagement Strategy for Fair Trade - Committee Room 5 - 18.00
15 Event - Commonwealth Week - Members’ Restaurant - 18.00
15 Event - Celebrating 20 years of the Edinburgh Tenants Federation - Garden Lobby - 18.30
16 Event - Commonwealth Day - Committee Rooms 1 and 2 - 13.00
16 Event - Commonwealth Week - Committee Rooms 4 and 6 - 16.00
16 Event - National Trust for Scotland - Committee Room 2 - 18.00
16 Event - Promoting Life Sciences and Innovation in Scotland - Committee Room 3 - 18.00
16 Event - Who Counts Day - Committee Room 1 - 18.30
from members of the Commission on the Future Delivery of Public Services, established by the Scottish Government. Commission chair Dr Campbell Christie was joined by commission members Alex Linkston, Kaliani Lyle, Eddie Reilly, Councillor Pat Watters and Dr Ruth Wishart. In his opening remarks, Christie told the committee that the commission had been set up to identify “opportunities and obstacles” that would help or hinder progress toward the Scottish Government’s vision for public services. He said that the commission had
been asked pay particular attention to improving outcomes, examining structures, reduce demand using methods such as early intervention, and consider the role of public service ethos and cultural change. He added: “A key challenge for the commission is to fi nd a way to sustain public services that deliver results, are well managed and governed, and continue to be valued by the people of Scotland, despite the diffi cult economic environment in which we will operate in future years. The future delivery of public services in Scotland faces substantial
16 The New Economic Reality, a Holyrood magazine conference, The Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh
16 Towards Positive Child Development, a Holyrood magazine conference, John McIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh
17 Event - MS Society - TG.20/TG.21 - 12.30
17 Event - Scotland the Brief - Committee Room 2 - 17.30
17 Event - Equal Futures: Safe and Secure Event - Garden Lobby - 18.00
17 Event - Nordic Horizons - Committee Room 1 - 18.00
18 Event - European Youth Parliament UK - Committee Rooms 1 and 3 - various times
29 Infection Control, a Holyrood magazine conference, The Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh
April 20 Human Resources, a Holyrood magazine conference, Edinburgh
26 Supporting Disabled Children and Young People, a Holyrood magazine conference
28 Lean Government, a Holyrood magazine conference, Edinburgh
challenges and we cannot assume that the nation will easily be able to meet them. Addressing the challenges is the most signifi cant task for the people who are responsible for Scotland’s public services and will remain so for at least the next fi ve to ten years.”
Christie went on to explain that the
commission was currently collecting evidence on which it would base its recommendations. Meetings with stakeholders were also being held, with discussion events throughout February and March. From April, all the evidence collated would be reviewed in depth ahead of the report’s publication in June. “The task that we have been given
is challenging, but we have been encouraged by the support that we have received from contributors and the enthusiasm that has been shown so far in the meetings that we have had with key players about the need for the task to be performed,” said Christie. Convener Duncan McNeil (Lab)
asked how the commission would build on the work of the Independent Budget Review (IBR) panel. Christie replied that the commission had met with members of the IBR in an effort to understand the thinking behind the fi nal chapter of the report, which had said a lot of work had to be done on taking longer-term decisions. Also, the commission was keen to have access to the evidence that had been submitted to the IBR. McNeil then asked: “Do you expect
to do better than the IBR in terms of government acceptance of your recommendations? Many of the IBR’s recommendations—and not necessarily only the longer-term ones—were not accepted by the Government. Will you draw anything from the IBR experience?” Christie replied: “We hope
that whoever receives our report will seriously consider our recommendations. We anticipate that the recommendations will be forward looking and will require courage. It is interesting that in the meetings that we have had with political parties and others, there has been a call to us to be courageous and bold in what we suggest. I have been around politics long enough to know that, once elected, governments decide what they are going to do and Parliament decides
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