Today I'm going to recap how we can understand the gravitational force, electric force, and magnetic force using the model of fields. Let's start with the gravitational field. In order to make a gravitational field, an object needs mass. The field lines point towards the center of that mass, and the strength of the field is indicated by how closely spaced the lines are. Closer lines mean a stronger field. When a particle with mass is in the field, it will experience a gravitational force in the same direction as the gravitational field. That's pretty easy. For gravity, the force and field are always in the same direction. Now let's look at electric fields. In order to make an electric field, an object needs charge. There are two natures of charge, positive and negative, and the electric field lines go towards the negative charges and away from the positive charges that are creating the fields. When a particle is in an electric field, it only experiences an electric force if it has a charge. If the particle has a positive charge, it experiences a force in the same direction as the electric field. And if it has a negative charge, the particle experiences a force in the opposite direction as the electric field. Now let's think about magnetic fields. Magnetic fields are created by permanent magnets, or charges moving through conductors, and you can click on this video I made about the first and second hand rules to see how that works. In order to experience a magnetic force, a particle again has to have charge, but now it also has to have velocity. The nature of the charge and the direction of the velocity determine the direction of the force, and it can be worked out using the third left or right hand rule. The force will always be at a right angle to the magnetic field, which is unique compared to the electric and gravitational fields. Now let's look at the motion of our particles in the different types of fields. In a gravitational or electric field, there are two types of motion we can get. If the particle is moving parallel to the field, the particle will experience a force in the same dimension as its velocity, and it will have linear accelerated motion. It will speed up or slow down in a straight line. If the particle is moving perpendicular to the field, the force will start off at a right angle to the velocity, and it will get motion in a parabola, just like projectile motion. Finally, the magnetic field. If a particle moves in the same dimension to the magnetic field, we get no force produced, and the particle has uniform motion. But if the particle moves at a right angle to the field, we get a magnetic force which is always at a right angle to the velocity through the entire motion of the particle, which causes uniform circular motion. If you're looking for more information on the mathematical models that describe the motion of these particles, check out these other videos on my YouTube channel. Thank you.


Hey coach, welcome back to the channel. If you haven't yet, subscribe because every single day we put out content which is designed to help you with your sports coaching business. Now, if at the end of this video you want to get in contact with me and you want to schedule a free 15 to 20 minute call to discuss your business, I can show you ways in order to start to grow and to scale your coaching business in whatever sport you are currently specializing in. Right, so today I want to talk about how to make 200 pounds per month in your football coaching business. Right, so this video is more specific to UK based coaches or trainers, but the principles and the strategies behind it can be used in whichever country you are. Right, so if you're in Canada, if you're in the United States, you're in Australia, wherever you are in the world, wherever you're watching this from, you can use the principles I'm about to share with you in order to make 200, 300, 400, 500 plus per month working with one to one clients. So a common question I get from trainers and coaches is how can I charge X amount per month for my training. Now the typical coach that I speak to on a regular basis every single day is a cultural trainer who is currently doing a session by session and is charging cash per session. Right, so what I mean by that is the client is showing up at the training session, they're doing the sessions and then the coaches getting paid. Right, I would say that maybe 97 percent of all one to one football coaches are currently operating their business this way. Right, and how this works is what they'll do is they'll probably reach out to their clients on a Sunday evening via a WhatsApp group and they'll probably tell that client or ask the clients these are the days or the time slots that I have available this week, which ones would you like to choose. And it's basically a business that is run week by week. And if you want to grow, if you want to scale long term, we've got a transition away from that model and into a more sustainable model where clients are paying you per month on a recurring billing model. Right, and I'm going to show you three ways how to do that today. Okay, so the first thing I want you to do right number one is we have to first of all work on our pricing. Right, so if you want to charge 200 per month, then the best way to do that is you could charge a 50 pound per session you do with that client. Right, and what that means is you could offer training sessions once a week over the course of the month, right, and charge those clients 50 pound per session per every time you train them. Right, but what we want to do is we don't want to say to clients, right, short to the session is 50 pound and you pay me after session. No, what we want to do is we want to make sure that those four or five sessions that you charge, right, typically four, right, because there's normally four weeks in a month. So you're going to be seeing your clients four times a month. What we want to do is we want to get clients to pay upfront for that month. Okay, so if you're seeing your clients four times in that month, then what we want to do is we want to make sure that parents are paying you upfront for the month. Right, that way, all you have to do is you have to just show up to your session at the agreed time and day that you agree with a client and you just have to give 100% to the client and focus your mind and your energy on your training. Right, now what I tend to see is we're coaches who charge per session, they never go into a training session with 100% focus and 100% energy. And the reason is because in the back of their mind, they're always thinking, right, is this client going to pay me or I'm going to have to ask the client to transfer me the money or to give me the money, pay me after the session. And when that happens, right, ultimately you get distracted from the most important thing which is working with your one to one clients. Okay, so the first thing we want to do is we want to make sure that clients are paying us upfront for the four weeks of training. Now the second most important thing is our pricing. Okay, so if you want to charge 200 per month, then you've got to make sure that your sessions are valued at 50 pound per session. Right, now what I teach coaches to do is not simply just focus on the price but adding more value away from the training field. So this means that we can offer other types of services which are included in this monthly package that clients are getting on a monthly basis. Right, so when coaches think of charging 200 per month, right, most don't believe that they can and most don't know how to add more value than just a one hour one to one training session. Right, so when we talk about pricing, we have to talk about, right, your training is once a week, once per week on a set they said time, but also away from that training session, we're going to offer something different than just training. Right, so away from that session we might do once a month, a 30 to 40 minute Zoom call where we will talk about confidence, nutrition and mindset. Okay, things that are going to add value to your client and to their performance. Right, also another service you can offer as part of your monthly package is you can go out and watch your clients play in their matches for their teams. And alongside that you can add a report as part of the monthly package. So you can go out to watch that your clients play and you can provide a really detailed report for the pair on how their child played and how they did. Okay, so when we think of 200 pounds per month, we don't want to think of it as just training. We want to think of it as more of a program and a package. Right, so parents are not just paying you for one hour of training per week, but they're paying you for an experience. Right, and you're going to get lots of value away from your one to one session. Now the third thing, in order to charge that much per month, we've got to make sure that parents are on a recurring billing system. So something we do at our company is we encourage coaches to invest into a online payment system where parents can register and make payments online. And that payment is going straight into your business account. And it makes everything a lot more streamlined, a lot more organized, and a lot more professional. Now, when coaches operate cash, the chances are you are either going to lose money. Okay, because your parents might not show up. There might be one week out the month that they don't show up, which means if they don't show up, you don't get paid. Right, also, I've heard of stories of coaches that have made, in one day, they've made 200, 300 pounds doing back to back one to one training sessions. And on the drive home, or as they're packing up, they lose the money. The money falls out of their pocket or gets blown away, or worse, it gets wet, and all they misplace it, right? And they've just lost all their income for that day. When you create an online system, this doesn't happen, right? Parents can make their payment online. You don't even have to talk about money at the field with parents and clients. And you can just focus your mind, your energy on the client and on the training session. So when we have a recurring billing process in place, all parents do is they sign a contract with you that they agree to pay you on the first week of each month for X amount of money. This is the terms. These are the conditions. This is what's included in the monthly package, right? And that way, you don't even have to worry about collecting or go into the bank to put it in your business account. Everything is done online and it saves you a lot of time, hassle, and energy having to go to the bank every single week or sometimes every day. If you have sessions every single day and parents are paying you cash, that means you've got to go the next day every day to the bank to put it in your account, right? We want to avoid that. We want to set up an online system where parents can pay you online. They can have a recurring billing system in place and you don't even have to worry about asking parents for money or chasing parents up for payment. So if you need more help with this, I want you to reach out to me. There's two ways you can do that. My calendar is in the description. You can set up a free 15 to 20 minute call with me where we can discuss your business. I can show you some strategies, some tips in order to start to grow, scale your business. Or if you want to send me a question, I answer all coaches that reach out to me that email me. My email is makemoneycoachingsports.com. Send me an email there and I'll be more than happy to answer your question straight away, right? Thank you for watching and I'll see you on the next one.


Open Sousa may very well be my favorite distro of all time if you've watched my channel for any amount of time over the course of the last Three or four or six months or so you've no doubt heard me talk about open Sousa I just made a video a few days ago about open Sousa So I've talked about it a lot on this channel And I will probably continue to talk about it a lot because I'm gonna be continuing to use it for quite some time It's a very good distribution and I would say again that it's my favorite I've talked about how it's the best Linux distro Although I've also argued that there is no such thing as the best Linux distro because really what's best is what's best for you But that's all beside the point open Sousa is a fantastic Distribution and I've talked about some of the things that I like about it over the course of the last two or a hundred or so days But what I want to talk about today is kind of codify all of those things I'm gonna talk about my five favorite things about open Sousa Just kind of get them all in one place so you can kind of understand a little bit about why I like it so much And why I've talked about it so much on the channel So that's what we're gonna do today But before we jump in if you leave a thumbs up on this video I'd really appreciate it and if you haven't hit the subscribe button yet also do that as well because it really helped the channel So open Sousa as I said is a very very good Linux distribution The first thing that I truly like about it And I think that this is probably my favorite feature out of everything is that it does a fantastic job with butter a fast now Butterfest I've talked about what that is in a separate video. I'll link that either, you know Pure in the comment section below or the description below Basically what it means just very simply is that it allows you to screw up or Break your system as much as you want and easily return to the point before You messed up and I like this about open Sousa, but it's not an open Sousa specific thing A lot of distributions do this The next users are out there like oh my god, this is the this is the next feature. This is what Nick is all about True I suppose the Dora also uses butter a fest and does a fairly good job of using butter fest snapshots Several other distributions use it You can also set this up on a boot to or dead mean if you want but open Sousa out of the box Does the best job of it because it takes reasonable snapshots at reasonable times and it makes them easily accessible and Because it uses Legit default very Standard sub volume names you can use things like timeshift you want and you can do so right of the box Whereas if you were to try to use timeshift on fedora You'd have to make some changes because it doesn't use is it doesn't use standard Butterfest sub volume names that uses just something different and you can't actually use timeshift with those Sub volume names it just doesn't work You have to make some changes there open Sousa uses the default ones And it does a very good job of allowing you to basically use whatever tools you want to manage your sub volumes and Your snapshots, which means that it's very easy when you mess up to roll back to a different snapshots and just continue on with your day and It just works phenomenally well, and I love that about it now again This feature is not very specific to open Sousa other distributions You can do this with but I found that just works the best at least for me so far on open Sousa now one of the things you think you would need to use those snapshots for very often is Actually returning to previous versions of open Sousa when something messes up from an update Because open Sousa is a rolling release So the second thing that I like about open Sousa is that it is a rolling release But it's also a better rolling release than any other rolling release. You've ever seen now That's quite a claim to make Matt. What does that mean? What does that even mean? Isn't manjaro better or arch or even fedora is technically a rolling release. I suppose kind of Sort of what does it mean? Well on open Sousa? you get all of the latest packages for the most part and It is for the most part It's not across the board like it is with art with arch that is basically like the Wild Wild West you get all of the early releases of every package that you ever would want and That obviously causes its own problems with open Sousa And I'm gonna I hate to make this comparison, but it's kind of does the manjaro way of things But although open Sousa existed long before Manjaro, so we'll just call manjaro doing it the open Sousa way of doing things So with especially now when I say this guys got to remember that I'm talking about tumbleweed specifically So tumbleweed is the rolling release version of open Sousa. This doesn't apply to all versions So what open Sousa tumbleweed does is that it releases things on a delay It does testing before it's pushed out to users. So for example with the Linux kernel We don't get the most recent version of the Linux kernel until usually two three or four weeks sometimes Down the line it took quite a long time for us to get six six it took quite a while for us to get six that seven I think I actually just got six that seven Just a couple of days ago to be honest with you It's but it so it takes some time to get the brand new version of the Linux kernel It's the same way with a lot of the core Linux utilities now I they obviously don't test everything that is in the repository Nor is the most recent version of everything in the repository. So for example the hyperland portal I've been I've talked about how I've switched to hyperland the hyperland portal that is in the repositories is quite old It's because it's maintained by someone that's not from open Sousa It's just a dude that maintains that package and they don't push the most recent version So unlike on Arch where everything is the brand new shiniest thing on open Sousa It's a mixture of brand brand new Tested and some older stuff and while it can kind of cause some issues I would say because you're looking especially if you're looking for the most recent version of some things as long as you're You know what to expect I like this way of doing things because it does mean that my system tends to be more stable Which is what I'm looking for at the moment now. I want a stable system with newer packages Otherwise, I'd use something like Debian Which is all about stability and you can just use the old crusty stuff as long as you want to and that's how you're Going to maintain your stability with open Sousa you get fairly new stuff without the breakages of arch But without using old crusty stuff like with Debian So I like that way of doing things and I think that that's probably the best way of doing things I think so that's number two number three is package availability So I think that when I came into the open Sousa Sphere my biggest worry was how am I gonna get all the packages that I want because I was so used to having the AUR at My fingertips now before I used open Sousa I was on Fedora and I was on Arch those two distributions Obviously have a very large selection of packages available to their users Specifically with Arch obviously you have the AUR with Fedora They have the COPR or copper and both of those systems allow basically users to put things into a repository Kind of similarly not exactly the same obviously and that means that they both have very large Selections of software like I said with open Sousa before I knew anything about open Sousa All I thought that they had was the open Sousa repositories and on my first few months of using open Sousa It I thought that basically that's all there was and I was mostly happy with The selection that I had I had to build quite a few things, but that was okay I was kind of expecting that to go in and I got me into distro box So when I had when I had to find something that wasn't in the open Sousa repositories I could install it through a arch distro box and I'd be happy and I could just go about my day But then I learned about the open build service now I'm going to make a separate video on the open build service, but basically the open build service from a user perspective Not from a developer perspective, but from a user perspective is kind of like the AUR It's not exactly the same technologically not even close, but from a user perspective It gives you access to a ton more software and you can install that software using a package manager called OPI Now OPI basically just searches the open build service or OPI basically just searches the open build service or OBS and If you use these tools in conjunction with zipper or with YAS You have a selection that is equal to at least fedora. It may not be equal to the AUR I would probably guess that the OBS and Open Sousa have significantly less packages in them than the AUR just because it's the AUR But overall with the addition of the open build service and the stuff in the open Sousa repositories I would say that there's a fantastic selection of software I've come to the point where I hardly ever use distro box despite liking it so much because the vast majority of stuff that I need is In either the open Sousa repositories or in an open build and service repositories So I've been able to get basically everything that I need from my distribution Natively and that's great. So package availability is quite good on open Sousa and I've been very very impressed with it Now is it as good as the AUR? Like I said, no, I don't think so Specifically you're gonna so let's just talk about a negative I don't want to be all positive that be against the grain here But the downside of the open build service is that it's kind of like the COPR and Fedora and with PPAs on Ubuntu so people can upload stuff to those things Well, it's kind of like a you are too and in this so you can upload stuff to those repositories and Never update those things again and that stuff kind of just stays there forever as long as it builds and That means that you're gonna find some old crusty stuff in those repositories. It's just the nature of that beast so that happens with all repositories that are user run and The open build services is no different there So that's kind of a small negative but overall I think the open build service is a fantastic thing and it offers so much more Software than you'd get if you just use the standard repositories. So that's number three number four is the community now This is a very vague thing to talk about and I've had both negative and positive things to say about basically every community that I've joined on Linux and I think that's basically the same. That's something that is universal because every community has their phenomenally helpful people and every community has their phenomenally Asholic people if we can say that word, you know, the Every community has their bad apples and open sewers Community is no different but overall the community has been very good I wouldn't say that they're the most friendly bunch is my only critique They can be kind of prickly very blunt especially on the forums but overall if you go into your support request with the logs and Specific things Explanations of over what is happening to you chances are you're gonna find that help You're gonna find that help quickly and if you can't find them on the forums. They are on discord They're on IRC. I think they have a telegram channel There's all you know You can go to all different places to get help the the best place I've found is on their discord because there's mostly a lot of people that are almost all the time and If you have something to ask and you need to support for something You can get that support very very easily and I've never not one time ever been told to read the manual Not a single time. I have been told to come back with logs several times So if you are going to go in and get help make sure you check your logs and cat that stuff into a file Somewhere where you can upload that to the forums It'll save both of them and use some time and some bluntness because they do get very blunt when they when you waste their time So and I think that's just the nature of the beast. I don't think that's anything just you know negative So just know that going in but overall the community has been a fantastic experience And I'm happy to have joined them So I think that overall over the course of the next how many 18 months or so that I still have on my Open Suza challenge, I will contribute to that as much as I can so the community has been good So there's that one now I will say this that my experience with open Suza is somewhat unique to me not it's not unique to me, but it's special To a certain group of people like me people who have managed to get it installed because I have converted quite a few people Over to open Suza over the course of the last six months. I'm very proud of the fact that I've converted those people I've also talked a whole bunch of other people into trying open Suza turns out. I'm a bit of influencer What is this world coming to? really, but I've talked a lot of people into trying open Suza because they you know, they see me liking open Suza and think well Maybe I'll have as good an experience as Matt has well That hasn't always been the case with a lot of people The way that I've seen this kind of happen is that if you can get open Suza to be installed You're gonna have an experience like mine. Basically, it's going to be rock steady rock solid if you will it's going to Be very very stable for you You'll have a lot of packages available to you You can do all the things that I've talked about in this video and have all those experiences But the other side of the coin is that a lot of people can't get it installed at all That it's usually the two outcomes that I've seen with open Suza either you can't get it installed at all At all in which case you move on to something different or you get it installed and you find that it's awesome I don't know why there's no middle ground there or Why some people can't get it installed. It's probably a hardware thing But that seems to be the kind of the two paths that people go down with open Suza for those people who get it installed like me I think that most people have the same experience where it's just a phenomenally stable distro And again, I guys got to remember everything that I said in this video I should have talked about this earlier is specific to open Suza tumbleweed Other versions may or not have the same, you know experience. So just keep that in mind I should have said that the beginning but nobody ever said that I was organized when I was doing this So you should be used to it by now Anyway, so for those of you who haven't gotten open Suza tumbleweed to install and if use it You probably have just kind of seen that it is a very very stable distribution And that has constantly surprised me over the course of the last 200 days because I've never had that experience really before fedora came the closest and Even then I had problems with it right over the course of the time that I use fedora There were problems that popped up the same thing when I was on Redcore for those two months or so and Over the course of me slowly Diverging from a distro hopper into someone who wants to use a distribution that is stable and just works I've found at least so far that open Suza has allowed me to do that the best out of all of them And that is a fantastic experience It's again not something that you would expect on a distribution that is at least in terms of tumbleweed a rolling release If this was leap, I'd understand because that's kind of old and crusty similar to debbie and but this is tumbleweed You'd expect things to break. I've expected things to break constantly every every time I see a 1300 package upgrade which happens often on open Suza I get worried because I expect something there to conflict or for it to delete something that needed to be you know capped or whatever I Expected to fail over and over and over again It has surprised me and just rebooted and I continue on with it just like it never happened and it's awesome The only times I ever have to use a butterfess snapshot rollback or a rollback for a snapshot is When I've done something wrong like I had installed Plasma or I installed hyperland the first time and it didn't go well Or I installed the gnome there for a little while and I wanted to get rid of it and the easiest way to do that with a Snapshot so anytime I've done something really stupid. It's been easy to roll back I've never had to roll back a single page on that because Linux cache I also have an over the up to the store. So that's the last one and again I can't go on enough about how awesome open Suza has been over the course of the last 200 days And I'm sure that I will continue to talk about how good open Suza is as I go forth using it So I'll try not to spam your feeds with how awesome open Suza is, but I will continue to say sticker fanboy open Suza Anyways, that's it for this video if you have thoughts on open Suza You can leave those in the comment section below if you have a favorite distro if you've become a fanboy of a distribution Leave your favorite distribution in the comment section below. I'd love to hear from you about that as well You can follow me on master down or Odyssey those links will be in the video description Which is available at shop. The Linux cast at org there You'll find desk mats and hats and hoodies and t-shirts and posters and stickers and all sorts of stuff All that stuff goes directly to help the channel. 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I guess it's Monica. Thank you so much for joining me in this video and I'm going to share with you some things that I have really really been enjoying this last month. So if you're curious as to things that I'm enjoying my favorites stay tuned. So I think one of the things that I have had a total resurgence of is that I don't even know if that's the correct word right? I mean but I have always always enjoyed my YouTube always. I love creating videos. I love talking with you guys. I love the whole YouTube experience. But this last month I don't know whether it's been that there's been like some really cool tags or what but this last month I've super enjoyed my experience. I mean from the tag that I did and with with Babs from Take Control Beauty on you know the tips of living your best life right after your 60s or 70s. I thought that was really awesome. I'll make sure I link those channels that channel below in that video below. And I did Susan's tag on Confessions of a Mature Woman which I thought was really awesome. And I'm gonna do another tag on Marriage which I'm looking forward to doing that one. So how do you how do you have or maintain a magical marriage? Yeah I could say a lot on that topic. But anyways I've really enjoyed my YouTube time and I I think it has to do with the content. I really have enjoyed. I've created two vlogs. I really love the vlog style videos. Jay and I we have the camper out. We went away 4th of July. So all of that. So this past month I have super enjoyed the videos I've created and posted and the videos I've watched and obviously all your comments and all your engagement engagement on those videos have been super huge. So the other thing I want to mention and I'll get on to makeup because I'm gonna talk a little bit about skincare and obviously a little bit about makeup. But lifestyle you know lifestyle changes and stuff like that. So as we get older the more important it is that we have some sort of a system in place for our health right or for our welfare and you know just being able to monitor ourselves. And I consider myself to be pretty active even though I'm overweight. I consider myself to be a pretty active mature woman. I am very physical. I don't usually just even though I work in a you know sometimes teaching where I would be stationary. I have a stand-up desk at work. So I'm always trying to do something. But I've had an Apple Watch for a long time and I really love my Apple Watch. But one of the things and one of the reasons why I upgraded to my Apple Watch last time was the health benefits. And so first hand if I'm stressed I can tell on my watch. It'll tell me to take deep breaths. It'll tell me to move. It'll tell me you know all sorts of different things. It'll monitor certain activities that I'm doing and my heart rate and you know all of that. But the about two weeks ago we were outside working and I tripped outside. Now it was nothing serious. I went down on soft you know it was a soft landing right? So no harm done. But I went down pretty quick and it was obviously unexpected and the health benefit or the safety benefit of my Apple Watch kicked in. So first thing notified as soon as I got down on my watch are you okay Monica? Do you need help? And I know that if I don't respond to this if there's no response they're going to call 911 right? Because that was the way the system sets up. So I immediately said I am okay. I don't need help so that it would go no further. But that like totally impressed me. And Jay has the Apple Watch feature as well. So you know it's a little bit of a I don't want to say it's a security thing because it really isn't. You know nothing is going to take place of being careful watching your step. But the older we get the easier it is to have those missteps and I just I felt so good knowing that gosh I went down and my Apple Watch sensed it and said do you need help. So my Apple Watch definitely a huge favorite this past month. The the thing that one thing I want to talk about now this product was I received this from Octoly. But I'll tell you I really love this product. I really do. I think it retails for about $50. This is I'm going to read a little bit from my notes. So this is MD Restore Eye Gel. Now it is it says it it's a soothing formula and it glides on silky smooth. I will tell you it glides on silky smooth. It'll smooth out my under eyes. It'll help de-puff them. And what it says is got baggage, uh-huh, dark circles, puffiness, fine lines and wrinkles. Oh yeah. And you know they can all make you feel and appear older obviously and kind of like tie it and burned out. So they say we've got a cure for these baddies right here and I I don't know if it's a cure for them but oh my gosh I really like this. So what I've been doing is I've been putting on it's very soothing formula.  Not a full pump. Not even half pump. Just a tiny depression on this right? And it goes I tap it in for both eyes and then I go up. It is it is wonderful. I really really like this. This was sent to me from MD Restore from MD I think it's Solar Sciences is the company name MD Solar Sciences. This was sent to me by Octoly in exchange for a review. And this is going to be something I'm going to repurchase at this point in time. I've used it for three weeks now. I love it. It has been absolutely fantastic and the brand story is really awesome as well. Natural clean ingredients and if you're into natural beauty or natural skin care this is gonna float your boat for sure. So I love that. Secondly I've mentioned frownies before and some of you have used frownies and you don't like the frownies. I love the frownies. I wear a frownie almost every single night. I clean my skin and then when I'm ready I wet the frownie. It's like a little triangle. This package is almost gone almost out. I do have another one already ordered and in. So it kind of looks like this. I wet it and I pulled apart my my 11's and I put this on and then I hold it in place until it dries. I wake up usually when I have this on. I will wake up in the morning and I don't have any 11's. I go to bed at night and I have 11's right because throughout the day I'm frowning. I'm doing this or that. I'm squinting into the sun and I have my eye issue so it's like really I'm squinting all the time. My frownies have been a lifesaver this last month and I love my frownies in general anyways. So clean skin. Second second I think I've talked about peaches. This was sent to me initially complimentary for review. I have used this. I dated this one January 20th. I still have almost a half a bottle left and also the exfoliator. I love these two products. These two products are hands down gives me the cleanest skin I can have.  I use a Foreo. This is a Foreo Dupe. I have a Foreo in the Mote Home. My Foreo Dupe is the one I have right now and this is called Halley Care. I've had this for two years.  I love this thing. To me it is totally, totally amazing. Absolutely love it. So the other thing that I have been loving that have been using now I can't use all of Peach's skin care system because the the for example the toner the vinegar toner just does not work with me but I am liking their classic moisturizer. I use this at night.  At night I really love it. It it does a great job on keeping my my skin moisturized. So yeah those three products from Peach's definitely a favorite. Definitely something I would purchase without a doubt. City Beauty Ultra Firming Dry Oil. I'm 67. Nothing is going to make my neck look better or look good. It really isn't. I've got a lot of wrinkles. I've got a lot of crepey.  I certainly try to make sure I have pitches done that way so I'm not like that like this. But still my neck has a lot of crepey skin a lot of dry skin and I I haven't been seeing like I haven't seen an improvement per se from this Ultra Firming Dry Oil and this is very pricey unless it's on sale. But I love this formula. What I do is after I've done my wash and all that I take this and I just go up from my dequatage up to my neck and I massage it in upward motions. It's a dry oil. I love it. Definitely a favorite. Definitely something I would consider purchasing without a doubt. Let's see this is my Lid and Lash Cleanser. So I have been diagnosed with dry eye and I've had some eye issues. I mean I have an eye issue going on right now so I'm on steroid drops on my eyes.  This is not inexpensive but I'll tell you I just feel so much more comfortable taking that last step with my eye makeup using this. I really like it. And then of course I'm going to be putting on my moisturizer, this eye stuff. Oh my God, this eye stuff is wonderful. So really liking that. I think I already mentioned in one of my previous videos, big sexy hair powder. I use this a lot in my bio hair. I'll sprinkle it a lot. It'll give me a lot of body, a lot of a warmth and I really like that. So definitely a huge favorite of mine. Repeat by I bought this a number of times. Another thing that's a repeat by is my NYX Wonder Stick. I think I've mentioned this a number of times as well. Still continues to be a favorite. Still continues to be something I gravitate towards the contour. I will contour with this and then you know, massage it in a little bit. I really like it. Now I also use the Smashbox contour. This was something that Sheila, my lovely, lovely Sheila, had suggested I use quite a while ago and this is definitely something I love. It has a contour which you can see I've hit pan on. It has a bit of a bronzer and has a bit of a highlighter. So this is a palette that I really like for contouring for a little bit of a highlight between this and my Wonder Stick. My Wonder Stick contour is a little warm where this is more of a cooler tone and I really prefer this for the start and this I use on different parts of my face. I also will use the contour in here to contour around my hair to sometimes disguise some of those god-awful grays, right? God-awful grays. So other things that I've been doing, I've been working my way through my foundations and the foundation I've worn the most this month that I've enjoyed the most this month is my Estee Lauder. Now when I buy my Estee Lauder, I buy it at the Cosmetic Company Outlet Store and it's extremely affordable and you know if I buy it in Macy's obviously you're gonna pay a heck of a lot more money if you go into Elta or Sephora but I go to the Cosmetic Company store this is like sometimes under $20 for this like $18 depending on the sale that's going on. Awesome. So I have one left I need to go to the Cosmetic Company store and get a backup. I've been wearing this an awful lot almost most days I've been wearing this I really like it since I ran out of my boots number seven and I haven't bought those my mission is to go through my foundations so really like this a lot. The other thing is my hair my wigs I've been wearing a lot of buns I've been wearing some of my toppers right now I have this is Raquel Welch this is shaded biscuit this is Raquel Welch what we call flirt alert in the very popular shade biscuit very blonde on me it's a treat to be this blonde I guess and Jay really likes it so every now and then you know this is gonna be the wig if we're going out on a special date maybe and he and I just want to feel like a different person maybe that I'll put on so I really like this wig a lot it isn't something I'd wear to work or anything like that but yeah on a special occasion this is definitely going to be on my head but my wigs my toppers my hair pieces my little buns they have they're always they always land in my favorites they really do and I love the fact that you can switch your look up and I love the fact that you know recently I wanted to try a bob a straight bob and Marlene said she'd mail me one to try so I didn't have to buy it so and then I'll do a review on it so I can't wait till that comes in to look at it and try it but you know what I mean if you didn't have the option of having you know the ability to buy wigs and and things of that nature you'd be like messing with your bio hair trying to this style that color it would really do a whole lot of wear and tear on your hair so I am loving all the alternate hair that I have that I can get my hands on I just think it's been it's been it's been super super now I have no polish on my nails I don't even have my rings on my fingers but because every now and then I just go on this kick where I'm going to leave my polish off let my nails breathe it which is what I'm doing now but I have really been enjoying some of the different nail polish or nail looks that I can get from the color street nail strips that I have bought from my lean fab and glam so even though I don't have one here to show you I don't have one on it has definitely been a favorite product of mine because even though you know my nails are kind of right I love when I can mix up the different nail looks that I get with those nail strips and they feel like real nail polish that is nail polish but it doesn't feel like you're wearing a coat of rubber on your nails it's it's it's just awesome awesome you can pick things up with it it's not that I've tried some before that like you feel like you've got a rubber chip and it can't grip anything so yeah so that's been my favorites Jay and I are going to be I'm not just sure when you're going to see this but I'm going to try to do a vlog I probably won't have it up this week but the following week Jay and I have a couple of different things that we do and he's been doing super on his drone he's got some drone footage he's been working on and and then we have a trip to Bar Harbor coming up and a trip to the beach that we're going to do a weekend at the beach and stuff like that so lots of different things to talk about and share and but super excited about YouTube I don't know I'm just feeling really positive I'm feeling really positive so anyways thank you all so much for watching I appreciate every single one of you I hope you have a wonderful wonderful day and come back and see me my next video bye bye


Maen nhw i adael i'r ffordd o'r tystig ddod o gyfraith hwyl tr Fearu Cymdeithas i 2018. Felly sefyll lanolau Blyd i gydechrau, fyddwn i'n ei ddengyrch, inclygwch i gael Ryce Gallun i ffrasあります. Y led yn y firstr nu. Arigau y led yn y firstr nu y ystafell, fyddwn i'n ei ddatblygu, wrth ei'r cyfraith cymdeithas y led yn y firstr. dwaid i'r ffordd i'r ffordd i'r ffordd i'r ffordd i'n ei ddatblygu, Agenda item 2 is the universal periodic review. We have taken oral evidence this morning from the cabinet secretary, Angela Constance, on the Scottish Government's response to the third universal periodic review, or the UPR, as we may be calling it through the committee, on human rights in the UK. I would like to welcome Ms Constance this morning. She is joined by Duncan Isle, who is the head of human rights policy at the Scottish Government and David Holmes, who is a human rights policy officer. Good morning and welcome to committee. This is the first time that this committee has considered the Scottish Government's response to the UPR, and so our main focus will be to understand the process and the role of the key players in greater detail, so that we can understand what the Parliament and the committee's role might be in future cycles. The Government's response covers a wide range of issues across many ministerial portfolios, and we realise that Cabinet Secretary and officials may not be in a position to respond immediately to any questions that fall outside her specific portfolio responsibility. We can, of course, follow up on any such issues via correspondence after the meeting should be required. Before we move on to questions, Cabinet Secretary, I would like to invite you to give us some opening remarks on your response to the UPR. Thank you very much, convener, and good morning and happy new year to everyone. As the convener says, the topic at hand this morning is to give evidence in relation to the third universal periodic review of the UK's human rights record and the Scottish Government's response to the UN human rights council's recommendations. The universal periodic review is a peer review mechanism that is co-ordinated by the UN human rights council. It takes the form of a rolling review of the human rights record of all UN member states and results and formal recommendations to the state under review. The UK's record has now been examined on three occasions in 2008, 2012 and last year, 2017. The Scottish Government values the opportunity that the UPR presents for countries to set out the action that they have taken to fulfil their international human rights obligations. In addition, it enables good practice to be shared and offers context within the civil society in which civil society interests can raise awareness of human rights challenges and highlight issues of concern. The UPR is a cyclical process, with each cycle running over a four to five-year period. It is centred on a formal examination of what is called an interactive dialogue, which is held in Geneva at the human rights council. The process consists of a question-and-answer session with the UN member state being able to make comments and offer recommendations to the state under review. States have made a national report in advance of the dialogue. Preparation of the UK report is co-ordinated by the UK Government on behalf of the member state. The Scottish Government actively contributes to that process and lazes very closely with the Ministry of Justice to ensure that Scottish interests are represented. The most recent report to the human rights council was submitted in February 2017 ahead of the May 2017 examination. National reports are, however, subject to a strict word limit. It is impossible in practice to include everything of relevance in the final version of the report. In order to ensure that a more detailed account of Scottish specific issues and actions was made publicly available, including for the benefit of Parliament and domestic stakeholders, the Scottish Government published its own position statement in April 2017. Our intention is that the publication of Scottish specific statements outlining compliance with human rights obligations in Scotland will become standard practice for exercises such as the UPR. The UK received a total of 227 recommendations from the UN human rights council following last year's interactive dialogue. Those covered both reserved and devolved matters. Prominent themes included violence against women and girls, hate crime, human trafficking, children's rights, the rights of asylum seekers and refugees and the UK Government's proposals to repeal the human rights act. Many of those are areas in which the Scottish Government has already taken positive action. However, there are also areas in which we would acknowledge that further action is required. There are also areas in which the powers necessary to fully implement treaty obligations are reserved to Westminster, for example, in relation to immigration and asylum. The UPR is not a flawless process. Relatively little attention was paid in the UPR recommendations to issues that had been highlighted by UN human rights treaty monitoring bodies in recent reviews of the UK, for example the impact of austerity measures and welfare reform policies and action to realise the rights of people with disabilities. Those are all priority issues for the Scottish Government. The UK Government responded formally to the human rights council at the end of August 2017, indicating which recommendations the UK supports and which recommendation it notes. Therefore, a recommendation indicates that a state intends to take action to implement it. In total, the UK Government supported 96 of the 227 recommendations and noted the remainder. The Scottish Government published its own separate response to the UPR recommendations on 8 December last year. The response provides a much fuller explanation of our position in relation to each of the recommendations. It also goes beyond the UPR recommendations to address many of the issues noted by UN treaty monitoring bodies in recent years, but which were not explicitly covered by the UPR. Throughout the UPR process, we have sought to engage actively with our civil society stakeholders. Meetings were held on 27 October 2016, 25 April 2017 and 12 June 2017. We have been very clear in our support for direct civil society engagement with the UN human rights council and national delegations. I hope that the overview of an engagement with the UPR has provided a helpful insight into key aspects of the process and our intentions for the future. I very much welcome further exploration of how the Government and Parliament can work together to engage with the UPR process in a way that leads to improvements in how the people of Scotland enjoy their human rights on a very practical and day-to-day basis. Thank you very much, cabinet secretary. My colleagues have lots of questions in all of those areas to come back and speak to you about, but I want to open with a question on the Scottish national action plan. You have said that the norm from now on will be a distinct Scottish response to any of the reviews that come up. How do you think the action plan now is a couple of years in? I was at an event in December where the Scottish human rights commission was doing a review of the action plan. Now that it is a couple of years in, how do you think the action plan can then be used to ensure that we give that distinct response, but we are making progress? The Scottish national action plan is very important. It is an area where Scotland is a nation and as a civic society has shown great leadership and commitment to the practical implementation of human rights in a way that is meaningful. It is very important to stress that the Scottish national action plan does not belong to the Scottish Government. It is a process in which we co-operate with the Scottish human rights council and our other partners across the public, private and third sector. We obviously contribute to that work. I am very pleased that you attended that event convener in December. That event was led by the Scottish human rights council and it was held as a national participation event. We have offered and will offer to support the Scottish human rights commission and other partners in terms of support around improvement in terms of using improvement services and improvement methodologies. It is a process that we do not wholly own but it is a process that we are absolutely committed to and it is a process that we want to utilise to best effect so that it can help to make human rights real in Scotland. That leads very nicely into the next question. It was an incredibly well-attended event. It was from people, from lots of statutory bodies in social work and social care, but also from smaller organisations and third sector. Just ordinary people. There were lots of people listed as just an interested person. If we really make an attempt to make human rights real for people, they need to know in which areas of their life that human rights make that difference. For a lot of people they see the headline grabbing things but they do not see the stories of how they can use human rights to realise better social care or use human rights to push along a judicial situation that they are involved in. Participation from ordinary folk and organisations is incredibly important. What other measures have the Government taken to ensure that that level of engagement continues and increases? That takes me back to some important points of process around the UPR process. That is a process that supports participation engagement from our national human rights institutions, which the Scottish Human Rights Commission and the Equality Human Rights Commission are accredited national human rights institutions who have speaking rights at UN monitoring bodies in the UPR process. That is a great opportunity. One of the many reasons why we publish our own Scottish specific reports in advance of the interactive dialogue and why we publish our own Scottish specific reports in response to UN council recommendations is that it enables that very focused scrutiny from organisations and other civic organisations such as the Scottish Human Rights Commission, the Equality Human Rights Commission and other organisations in civic Scotland. We are not just submitting information to the UK Government for them to reflect in a partial way that the Scottish position. We are going above and beyond producing full reports. That full report that the Scottish report is available in advance of the interactive dialogue, which gives our civic organisations the opportunities to be reading that report, reflecting on it, to be co-ordinating their response and making their own representations in this instance in terms of the UPR process, the United Nations Human Rights Committee. That gives us a great national experience for our national human rights organisations and promotes great capacity building within not just the bigger national human rights institutions in Scotland but also some of those smaller stakeholder groups. I think that it's fair to say that—I should remind the committee, obviously, of my former membership of the SNAP leadership panel and also as a convener of the Scottish Alliance for Children's Rights. It's fair to say that one of the problems with the UPR process is that state parties, when they submit reports, give a fairly glossy varnish of their own records, effectively submitting their own human rights CV. They put their successes and progressive activities to the fore and don't really talk about the bits where they have fallibility. With the best will in the world, that could be said of the Scottish Government's own reports that we would want to talk about where we were excelling in terms of human rights delivery and not necessarily in the areas that were far behind. In 2017, last year, in June, a panel discussion, Hakeem Benchamarca from Morocco, suggested that parliaments should have a role in that as well and that reporting by parliaments to the UPR process should be considered as a mainstream vehicle into that process. That way, in parliaments, not just in terms of the state party but of devolved administrations in the state party could act as a critical friend to the activities of the state party but also in their own devolved administration could be a counterpoint to the reports published by, for example, the Scottish Government. I give examples of where we might have fed from this committee into that. In our inquiry around destitution of asylum seekers, we found some significant problems with UK immigration policy, which affected the life circumstances of people seeking asylum in this country. We would have wanted to feed that into the UPR process. Do you support a parliamentary process to feed in a neutral report or a non-partisan report on behalf of the Parliament that would act as a counterpoint to the Scottish Government report? I suppose that is the role of the national human rights institutions. We published transparently our report. Our report in advance of that in active dialogue that I would contend is an accurate reflection of our current policy and legislation. The whole purpose of the UPR is a cyclical process about continuous improvements. We are not suggesting that everything is a done job or that everything is perfect or that there is not that need for continuous improvement. We do not have to publish a Scottish-specific report, but we recognise that, with the best will in the world, there is a word limit for the UK report. We are one part of the UK. We want to show that full range of positions in progress or need for further action in Scotland. We are the best will in the world. That will not necessarily be reflected within a UK report, just given word limits, etc. We are already as a Government going above and beyond in terms of what we have to do. We are not taking a minimalist approach. Obviously, in terms of the national human rights institutions, they have an opportunity and, indeed, the responsibility to scrutinise that and come to a view. I am very supportive of Parliament taking an enhanced role. I suppose I am somewhat conscious. Is it really for Government ministers to be, I suppose, telling Parliament how to scrutinise Government? I am being a little bit delicate about that, because I think that that would annoy the parliamentary authorities and, indeed, parliamentarians if it is Government ministers that are preaching how that should be done. However, if I can say on broad levels, I am very supportive of the role of Parliament in that regard. I think that there are existing opportunities. As a Government, we are open to further parliamentary opportunities in terms of scrutinising how we feed into the process, in terms of scrutinising what we prepare for the process, and then, crucially, coming to a view as a Parliament in terms of where our priorities and where we want to give further impetus. I am also conscious that the Commission for Parliamentary Reform had ruminated on the role of Parliament as a guarantor, if you like, of human rights, and I had made some recommendations for this committee in particular. One of my reflections is that the benefit of increased parliamentary involvement and scrutiny would be that it would help to mainstream the work in this area. I am sure that this is something that I contend with, given my particular portfolio responsibilities. I am sure that this committee contends with it as well, but we do not want human rights or equality to be seen to be the province of one committee or one portfolio that has to be mainstreamed throughout Government and throughout Parliament. I appreciate that. That was quite a long answer, Mr Cole-Hamilton. That was a long question, but we would be very supportive of that direction of travel. Thank you for that answer. I congratulate the Scottish Government for producing the report. Not all devolved Governments within state parties do that, so I think that it is to be commended. My question stems from that reality that, increasingly, Parliament is being looked to, not just in Scotland but in the world, as guarantors of human rights in their jurisdictions, particularly as they act as naturally a check on the work of the executive of Government. To that end, I feel that there is a missing piece of the jigsaw in the UPR process. If we are to be the guarantor of human rights, we cannot just have the Scottish Government prepare its own report on the UPR and then let the human rights institutions act as a critical friend to that and challenge that or seek to mould that. My question would be, I, for one, would like this committee, at least, to have a role in the preparation of that report and scrutiny of that report in future UPRs. Would that be possible? It is entirely open to the committee to be, whether it is the UPR process or whether it is our involvement in other monitoring processes around other international treaties. The process that we take to participate in the UPR in terms of providing information to the UK Government for the UPR process is one that we undertake for other monitoring, scrutiny of other international treaties that the UK has signed up to. It would appear to me entirely reasonable if, in advance of this Government preparing our specific Scottish reports that if the committee was doing a call for evidence or, like you are today, calling ministers to account, I would expect there would be opportunities for the committee before and after the preparation of reports to be looking at that further. Of course, I think that it would require the Government to perhaps give you some advance warning about timescales in the frameworks. I would never be adverse to that far, far from it. The point about the role of parliaments is important, given that we all have a role to play. We speak a lot as a Government that this is a core responsibility for Government, but it is not Government's job alone, and it is not something that Government can achieve alone. If there is an enhanced role for Parliament, I am sure that that would be welcome. I am sure that it would be welcome by stakeholders, not my job to speak on behalf of stakeholders. I will give my time to others and come back in later, if I may convener. In respect of the reports that we produce now, the Scottish-specific reports, how much of that is acting as a critical friend to the UK Government in respect of reserved powers, particularly, for example, on the rights of asylum seekers who end up in Scotland, who find themselves destitute or whatever? How much of it is introspective about where we are falling short in terms of our human rights obligations? I suppose that our report fulfills a number of functions. I think that that is a quite diplomatic way to put it, that we do regularly and appropriately highlight different policy positions in both reserved and devolved matters or differences in approach and opinion around refugees and asylum seekers. I suppose that would be a very obvious example of that. On purpose, where is our report as in the state of the nation report, if you like, and then our response to the recommendations? I think that where it is really useful is that it can act as a strategic overview, a strategic document. Those are lengthy reports. They are reports that provide a go-to place, a go-to report in terms of looking at our overall work in the one place. I suppose that they are a bit like reference documents, as well as trying to help with that process of reflection. I think that it is the process in terms of participating in those reviews and the debate and dialogue that goes on around that. That is the process that is reflective and helps to focus minds on further specifics and the further detailed actions. There are always ways—those are really lengthy reports, and I am sure that there are always ways to do them better. I did say that that was my last question, but what you said there is part to follow up. When you said earlier that the UPR conclusions cover reserved and devolved areas, so those areas, the concluding observations of those UPRs, when they cover Scottish devolved powers, what is the process for the Government ingesting them and dealing with them and finding a way to make them good? Out of the 227 recommendations that were made by the UN Human Rights Committee, around 100 or so of those were entirely reserved. We have a view in those matters, but they are entirely reserved. Other recommendations are either devolved or are a mix between reserved and devolved. Some of those recommendations may also relate to devolved issues, but they are crafted in a UK context. In terms of the spirit of them, they will be supportive, but how they are crafted or worded may not be a simple shift and lift. I am pleased to say that I quoted earlier how the UK supports 42 per cent of those 227 recommendations. When you strip out the recommendations that are wholly reserved, the recommendations that we would be supportive of would be much higher, which would be around 80 per cent. In terms of the other recommendations, the UK talks about noting that those are perhaps recommendations that are not necessarily rejected but are supported in part or are areas that further work needs to be done before you can come to a view or, indeed, see how you are going to enact or accept. It is important to emphasise that it is a reflective, considered process as opposed to a straight accept reject of recommendations. In our report, because we have tried to widen out the issues, it was welcomed by the stakeholders. There were intimate and molten remarks. There were issues that, in terms of the UN monitoring bodies of individual treaties, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of People with Disabilities came up with some very sharp critical views of the UK Government around welfare reforms and the impact on the rights of people with disabilities. That was not encapsulated in the universal periodic review, and there were some other areas that were missing as well. We have, in our response to the UPR recommendations, looked at the international treaties, the human rights monitoring bodies recommendations around the UK's performance in individual international treaties, to give a more holistic response and a broader response, and hopefully one with more depth. I would like to discuss a couple of specific areas with you this morning, cabinet secretary. The first is the Istanbul convention. There is a call for full ratification of the Istanbul convention, and I know that that is something that you fully support. We have the equally safe strategy in Scotland that has done a huge amount of work to eradicate violence against women and protect families. I wonder if you could perhaps update us on where we are with full ratification of the Istanbul convention. Obviously, it is only the UK Government that can ratify. There was legislation successfully led by Dr Ailey Whiteford, the former MP for Banff and Bucking, and it was a huge personal achievement for her that had great acclaim with the women's organisations in Scotland. It was a great moment and a great achievement when the UK Government supported her private member's bill, and they have made that commitment to ratify. In terms of that bill at a UK level, what needs to happen is that the UK Government needs to take action, and there are specific issues around extra-territorial jurisdictions that need to be resolved. That requires legislation or at least regulation. Once that is done, the UK Government can move to ratify. It is a fair response that they need to take action to enable them to ratify, and that is the proper process. In terms of a Scottish context with an equally safe strategy and also an equally safe delivery plan, we have been long advocates of the Istanbul convention. Actually, because there is a huge correlation between a equally safe strategy and the Istanbul convention and we were very confident that the tie-in was very strong and very direct, and as a nation we were confident that it would not take an awful lot more before Scotland, in practice, was compliant with the Istanbul convention. The issue that needs to be resolved and the primary issue that needs to be resolved to enable ratification is around the extra-territorial jurisdictions. Is there any idea when that issue will be resolved? I do not have a timetable for that, but we could follow that up with the UK Government. Yes, because it would be helpful to know how far along the road they have travelled. I think that, convener, with respect, it would also be helpful to know where it is in terms of priorities in terms of whether it requires legislation regulations in terms of the process through the House of Commons. Obviously, like most Governments, there are a number of bills and legislation to pursue, so it would be good to know where it is in the priority list. I would hope that it was high up. So would I. The other area that I wanted to ask about was the Roma integration strategy. In the report section on the United Kingdom's key steps, there is only one reference to Scotland, and that is the development of a housing strategy, which is backed by EU funds. There is also a recognition that different nations have to adopt different policies to implement the Roma integration strategy. Across the UK, there are different approaches taken by the devolved Governments. In Northern Ireland, they have done a number of different things towards integration of the Roma. There is an education programme, a provision of school uniform, new initiatives around gypsy traveller health and wellbeing, and there is health support. There is also mediation on housing issues in Northern Ireland. In Wales, there is a grant for education for gypsy traveller children. There are also revisions to health and homelessness around gypsy travellers. There is a Mobile Homes Travellers Act. There is a proposal for a statutory duty on local authorities to provide housing. I am just keen to explore what more the Scottish Government could do, because clearly across the devolved nations there is the opportunity to do more to improve the outcomes for gypsy travellers in the Roma. I know that the cabinet secretary is keen to progress again. I will be aware of the work that I am going to lead and progress around the ministerial working group that will involve a number of Scottish Government ministers that will meet throughout this year. In all the areas that they have touched upon, we are absolutely determined to make process. In terms of the UPR recommendations, there were several recommendations that relate to the gypsy traveller community, indeed in terms of integration strategies about strengthening and activating existing laws, elaborating a general strategy and preventing all kinds of discrimination. Those recommendations will certainly inform the work of the ministerial working group directly as we proceed. The committee might also be interested in Lord Aberystwyff, who, as UK minister, has responsibility for community cohesion and interfaith issues. Last year convened a four nations group. It was before the general election last year. Political representatives from all the devolved administrations got together with Lord Aberystwyth. We discussed a number of issues in and around race, gypsy travellers, and when we met again in Edinburgh, we looked at some interfaith work and discussed issues around gypsy travellers. That has become quite a useful forum in terms of exchanging experiences and best practice at what the different home nations across the UK are doing. I found that particularly useful in relation to issues around how we could better support the gypsy traveller community. That body will meet again sometime in spring—I cannot remember its March or April—and we are going to meet Cardiff this time. I am going to take that opportunity to have a much closer look at what the devolved administration in Wales is doing around gypsy travellers, because they have some strands of work that are of particular interest. While we cannot necessarily, whether it is in a UK context or an international context, shift and lift what other countries are doing, because systems and legislation, in our instance, are different, but it is important to really look and really learn from the experiences and practices of other countries. Given that it is quite easy to do that across the home nations at a UK level, I am keen to take the opportunities to do that. Obviously, we will keep the committee informed both of the work in terms of the ministerial working group, but we know where there is interest in learning from across the UK. There is one other area that I would just like to briefly ask you about. That is about action that has been taken to improve prisoner safety. I know that you would automatically think that prisoners, the justice sector, would be looking at that, but there is quite a strong human rights element to the way in which prisoners are detained. There is a whole range of issues around their safety and their human rights and what needs to be done to fully protect them. Can you give us a brief update on any work that has been done around that? I will give you a brief update. Obviously, it is not the day-to-day work of justice colleagues, and I understand that the tone and tenor and resendette of Ms Fee's question is a form of prison social worker. I get entirely into the impact that the prison population has on people's care and rehabilitation with the institutions. Prison population has fallen. We have had a period in Scotland in which it continued to rise. It is now going the other way, and that has to be welcome. Obviously, there are programme for government commitments around which Parliament has still to fully consider, but we have programme for government commitments around presumption against short prison sentences. Obviously, there is the important work that has been done in terms of a whole systems approach that has had sparkling results in terms of reducing offending among young people and young offenders. The population of the young offenders institution at Pullman is much decreased because of the work around prevention and alternatives to custody. That, of course, has enabled more in-depth work in terms of the rehabilitation of those young people who are incarcerated. Mental health strategy is very important in terms of our prison population. One of the things against a personal reflection that I was very pleased that the Government took under Mr McCaskill was that the medical treatment of prisoners and the provision of medical treatment is now delivered as part of the NHS, as opposed to a kind of contracting arrangement. I think that that has to be much welcomed. That is an action that was taken a number of years ago, but I think that that was very important step forward that compares favourably since my days of working in the prison state. There is also the work in terms of the violent reduction strategy, where each prison has its own plan as well. The suicide prevention strategy is very important for our prison population. If you have ever worked in a prison and experienced the impact that a suicide has on the mental wellbeing of other prisoners and staff working on those institutions, never mind the devastating impact that it has on families. Those things always touch you for ever, so our suicide prevention strategy is particularly important. I think that there is a much, much greater awareness at the corporate level of the Scottish Prison Service and, indeed, those who are working on the front line in our prisons about the importance and the relevance of putting human rights in the practice as well and how that is actually good for our communities. It is good for the rehabilitation of offenders and it is therefore good for our communities and our national interest. Thank you for that very thorough answer. Committees across the Parliament have a remit across all them. Would the Parliament consider training for staff and members to allow a greater understanding and scrutiny of human rights within the committee system? I suppose that that is obviously a question for the Parliament, whether that is the corporate body or the Presiding Officer in terms of training. Again, from a personal perspective, when I was working within the prison estate, when I was working at the state hospital at Carstairs, it was at a time where there was growing recognition of the importance of human rights. It was at a time when there were many tabloid articles about how all of this was nonsense and how it was going to lead to terrible outcomes. I remember, as a social worker, undergoing training on the importance and relevance of human rights as did other hospital staff who were working at the state hospital from other disciplines. I would testify to the importance of training for front-line professionals or front-line staff. I think that it can have the power to change people's practice and change their outlook. I suppose that, with respect, that is ultimately a question for the Parliament, but it would be one that I would personally endorse. I understand that a new advisory board has been established on human rights, and I was just wondering whether the cabinet secretary tells us what the make-up is of it and what the role is. Part of the programme for government for 2017 and 2018, the First Minister established an advisory group on human rights leadership. The L word, the leadership word, is crucially important. Colleagues might recall that the programme for government spoke about how we need to be aspirational and ambitious around our human rights obligations, recognising that we have a good record here in Scotland, but we are always striving to do more and achieve more by working through some of the thorny issues and making sure that things can be delivered and delivered in practice. As part of that manifesto programme for government commitment about giving further and more meaningful effect, for example, on economic, social and cultural rights, the First Minister was keen to establish a human rights leadership group. It is chaired by Professor Alan Miller, who will be well known to the committee. There will also be a participatory process as part of that. The advisory group will oversee a participatory process involving various civic stakeholders. There is also a reference group of various organisations with the specialist input that will inform that work. That group met for the first time yesterday. Thank you very much. Jamie Greene Thank you, convener. Good morning, cabinet secretary and other guests, and happy new year. Just to go back to some of the broader picture on next steps. Of the 227 recommendations that were given, presumably to the UK as the member state, but I thank to a previous question clarification given on how many of those are entirely reserved versus how many have either full competency under devolution or indeed a partially or shared competencies. Just looking through the list of some of the 12 key themes, there are obviously things that are clearly reserved, such as immigration policy, etc. There are also lots that are peppered through the guidance and the recommendations that are clearly devolved matters, such as closing the equality gap employment, prison safety, guidance to schools, etc. One of the things that I am less sure about is how if the UK Government pursues a specific route to address some of those recommendations, such as guidance to schools or justice, and the Scottish Government is perhaps addressing those recommendations in a different way, how that will be jointly reflected in the next review period when all of that work combined has to go back to the UN to address whether the member state has taken into account those recommendations. I guess the question there is how will the Scottish Government liaise both with the UN, but also the UK Government to ensure that those joint efforts, whilst they may be different in their manifestations, are able to equally feed into the bigger picture? I think that that is a fair question. If I start with a bit about the process from here to the future, I should start by saying that we do work closely and collaboratively with the Minister of Justice in terms of the preparation of the UK report. That is something that will be a degree of tune and thrown between our respective officials on. The UK Government will prepare its report. We will have prepared our Scottish report. We will forward that to them. They will provide the UK report. We will give comments on that from a Scottish perspective. It is an iterative process. There will be various changes made. I am just reflecting on that. That is absolutely not a political point. With the best will in the world, a UK report is not going to reflect everything from a Scottish perspective. Hence, we do our own specific reports, which do not go to the UN. It is a UK report that goes to the UN for obvious reasons about the UK being the member state. However, our report, as I indicated in my response to Mr Cole-Hamilton, can go to stakeholders. It is available to parliamentarians. It is available to committees. What will happen now is that the UK Government has said that it will, later on this year, respond to four or five recommendations. It will give an update of where they are with four or five of the recommendations. I do not know which four or five recommendations it will focus on. There is also going to be a mid-point review. Again, this is voluntary. The UK Government does not have to participate in that, but it has agreed that it will provide a mid-point review that will encapsulate progress against the recommendations. As we always do, we will engage very closely. We will want to give full information about Scotland and where we are in relation to the recommendations. We accept that, with the best of all in the world, we are not going to just cut and paste our report and its entirety, so we want to produce our own reports. We will make sure that they are available to committee should you want to pursue your own deliberations about that. Given that we have differences in some areas on approach, the Government is hugely committed to the maintenance of the human rights act. We are hugely committed to the European Convention on human rights, which obviously has an impact on the human rights act and the Scotland Act 2020. In terms of human rights, generally, I contend that we have a different approach, and that is before we even get into some specific policy matters. One of the things that I put to the UK Government is that, in terms of the UPR process, I felt that a Scottish minister should be going with the UK minister to represent the UK, given that there are nuances and just different approaches in terms of this area. That was not something that the UK Government accepted. The UPR process in terms of interactive dialogue is a UK Government minister. In this instance, it was all of our held minister, one of the minister of justice ministers, who was making the verbal representations, although it should be said that Duncan Ells, our head of human rights in Scotland and within the Scottish Government, was there and that we had informed the minister's brief impact. Given that there are, and it is something that I will continue to pursue, ministerial representation from Scotland would be useful. We do it in other scenarios. There are times in previous portfolios where I went as a Scottish Government minister to European committees. You are there representing the UK, which you do, but it gives you an opportunity to speak more fulsomely about Scotland's position. I appreciate that answer. Do you get a feeling that some of the work that is done in Scotland via the Scottish Government could assist the UK and meet some of its obligations in the recommendations? In terms of the devolved settlements, in terms of policy around things that we have touched upon, gypsy travellers, prisons and housing education, there are significant differences and there are significant, profound differences of opinions around immigration, asylum and welfare reform. However, in terms of our notwithstanding differences, which of course we are within our rights to highlight, in terms of our participation in the UK process, we are participating to demonstrate that at a UK level, we are not responsible for all the UK performance, but the Scottish performance that I contend helps the UK to demonstrate that we are meeting our obligations. One of the most challenging conventions that we, as the UK State Party, are signatory to and is the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities. It is not just a reflection on UK or Scottish Government policy. I think that every state party in the United Nations finds this particularly difficult, particularly around capacity and supported decision making, because, effectively, the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities suggests that we tear up all of our capacity legislation and start again. We have mental health tribunals where judges routinely appoint curators to act for people who could make meaningful decisions, but it is easier sometimes just for them to do exactly that. My question is, what steps are the Government taking to review our capacity legislation and, indeed, the efforts that we take to support decision making for people who we have not previously credited with the capacity to be able to do so? I think that it is fair to say that decision making and policy and practice around issues of capacity are quite challenging and always will be. In terms of our existing legislation in and around the Adults with Incapacity Act, the legislation is based on principles. In terms of practitioners, if you were taking action because it was a professional view that someone lacked capacity, you had to demonstrate throughout your applications in terms of the court process that you were applying those principles. While I would say that all legislation needs to move on, in terms of the basis of, for example, Adults with Incapacity legislation, to apply principles at a rudimentary level to take a human rights approach and, indeed, to take a person-centred approach. Of course, that legislation is now old. There is a review around Adults with Incapacity legislation that will be led by health ministers. In terms of the most recent mental health act, the health ministers will be given some consideration to issues for people with autism and learning disability, whether the way in which the act articulates issues around mental disorder, some of the definitions in the act, how the rights and needs and interests of people with learning disabilities and autism is the legislation best crafted to accommodate that. My knowledge of the legislation on a day-to-day basis is probably ten years old now, but in terms of health ministers, they are actively looking at those processes. In terms of the broader points, in terms of how we meet our obligations, both to the UPR process and to the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, where we have been able to demonstrate progress in Scotland is around the work that we have done around the disability employment gap. First Minister and Ms Freeman have been active around the Unemployment Summit, and there is the disability fairness plan in Scotland. That was crafted very much with a view to how we meet our international treaty obligations. Obviously, the Social Security Committee in this instance has taken a big interest in the disability delivery plan. Thank you for that. Finally, for me, if I may convene it, you would be disappointed if I did not raise it. One of the aspects of the UPR was about access to justice. One of the groups of people in our society who seldom get access to justice are children. That is because their rights are not always enthrined in law in any way. The committee is actively called for this Government to consider the full incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. We were very gratified at the return from recess that the First Minister, after the summer, signalled a willingness to consider it. Can the cabinet secretary give us some idea of how that work is progressing and what kind of timescale we are looking at for any process behind that? One of the reasons for setting up the First Minister's advisory group on human rights leadership was to consider further issues in and around incorporation. We want to work through the issues that need to be worked through. It is all very well. I understand the reason for the desire for people to say, let's incorporate and let's incorporate now. In terms of a meaningful process that will result in a meaningful impact on the lives in this instance of children, there are issues that we need to work through across the Government, and the First Minister's advisory group in part will help with that process. There is also work that has started, again led by education colleagues, in terms of an audit around our compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of Child, which is, again, a useful process to be embarked upon as well, and will give focus attentions on particular areas. Of course, I am glad that Mr Cole Hamilton welcomes the moves that were indicated in the programme for government around acceptance of Mr Finney's member's bill, and we are obviously in response to various scrutiny and inertial scrutiny processes. We undertook very in-depth work on how we would go about raising the age of criminal responsibility, which I think is a demonstration of how, when you work collaboratively with the experts and the stakeholders, you can work through the issues and we can get to a position where we can undertake action that is certainly a step in the right direction. Can I just ask what has been done to monitor the effectiveness of anti-trafficking legislation? Obviously, we have particular legislation in that area. Our position in work on human trafficking, as well as the work around female genital mutilation, was work that Scotland was specifically mentioned on as part of the interactive dialogue. I think that we should take some encouragement from that. There is a little bit of international recognition of the work that we have done today on both FGM. I know that that is something that Annie Wells has been campaigning on, as well as her work around human trafficking. The very successful campaigns, again led by justice colleagues, have been undertaken to inform the public of the existence of human trafficking and what to do in response to any concerns that the public has. There are a number of layers of how we monitor our progress. In terms of my portfolio, we are looking at overall how we respond to our international obligations and then bearing in mind that all committees and all portfolios have human rights duties. There are very specific responsibilities for justice ministers as well in terms of reviewing or working in and around human trafficking and, indeed, the effectiveness of that. I can get back to committee with if there are specific actions that justice colleagues are looking at. That would be helpful, just to see if there is anything that has been picked up in any changes that need to be made. That would be helpful. I think that the cross-party groups have a review with Scottish Government ministers anyway on the progress of the human trafficking act and the value that it has created. Cabinet Secretary, I have two final things for you before we can let you go. We have covered quite a lot this morning. If you look at the UPR recommendations and concluding observations, not just from this cycle but from the last cycle as well, and you look at how this Parliament and this Government have reacted to some of that in legislation, so we are obviously building towards a social security system that is for people with disabilities, the Trafficon Act, violence against women, climate change, the support of the Equal Protection Bill, John Finnie's Bill, all of that are pieces of legislation that we have brought in that are discreet to Scotland in that sense. I note the letter that we will be discussing later from you, Cabinet Secretary, on the child poverty bill. We have created legislation in those areas that hopefully will make things better and create some progress. How do you see the child poverty bill addressing some of the specific recommendations in the UPR on children and having the best life chances at the earliest stage? I was very pleased that, in the equality and human rights commission submission to the UPR process, it said that there have been some very positive developments that the Scottish Government has committed to reintroducing and binding child poverty targets after those were recently repealed at Westminster. I was personally pleased that there was recognition of the importance of the work that I and my portfolio have led, but also that the unanimous position of Parliament to unanimously pass our child poverty legislation. In terms of where we are at just now, our child poverty delivery plan will have to be published. Our first child poverty delivery plan will be a number of child poverty delivery plans between now and 2030, but our first child poverty delivery plan will be published in April this year. That will be very important in a number of regards in that it will have to show that cross-government endeavour. It will be informed by the advice of the independent poverty and inequality commission. I am absolutely sure that there will be parliamentary scrutiny of our first child poverty delivery plan. I am trying to say in terms of participation, engagement and accountability that the child poverty delivery plan is coming from our legislation and in terms of how it is brought together. I think that we will demonstrate how we are trying to make the rights of children to live free of poverty and how we are trying to make that real and meaningful. That is helpful, cabinet secretary. Finally, we could not let you go with making some mention of the impact of Brexit, specifically from our rights point of view. We have talked now about pieces of legislation that the Scottish Government and this Parliament has brought about in order to fill gaps or to have a discrete piece of legislation, because we maybe want to go a bit further on something, especially on a rights-based context. Given the amendment votes on the withdrawal bill the night before last, which put the ECHR in a pretty precarious position, and some of the other pronouncements about human rights policy generally, whether the Scottish Government would have any plans. I know that this is quite a question that is about the future plans, but would there be future plans that the Scottish Government would consider to fill any policy gaps or rights gaps that would develop from withdrawal from the EU? Yes. Our position is that we do not want to see any diminishing of the rights that we currently enjoy as part of being a member of the European Union. Again, part of the reason for the First Minister establishing her advisory group on leadership and human rights was to look at the point that she raised that, in the context of Brexit, how do we protect what we have and that there is no step backwards? How do we also extend what we have? So, although there will be a job of work of there to do for a range of policy experts and a full range of ministers and cabinet secretaries, the First Minister's advisory group will help us with that process about how, given the uncharted waters of Brexit, how do we protect the rights that we all currently enjoy and how do we continue on the road where we are aspirational and ambitious as well in terms of going further with our human rights obligations? I am sure that it is one. We will come back to that. I would imagine so. Is there any final questions from colleagues? I think that we do not, we have not exhausted all of the questions that we want to put to you, but maybe they are a bit wider than your portfolio, cabinet secretary. We are very grateful for your participation this morning and for your answers. There are many areas that I am sure that we will continue to dialogue on, but we are very grateful for your participation this morning. We are moving on to agenda item 3, which we have agreed to take in private, so I now suspend committee.