I was good everyone, real is the gaming here and today I came across this channel named steakey We're gonna be reacting to a spongebob squarepants war for bikini bottom This animation looks pretty sick. Oh, no, not my leg Oh Holy anchor food Okay, so it's as we see there's already chaos going on in bikini bottom And from my understanding is that bikini bottom There you go that bikini bottom is being attacked by humans.  Oh Patrick. Hey Patrick's getting the reps in man. I Don't know Patrick girls with such athletic Look at him go. Oh Sandy I Thought it was karate not boxing.   I guess that's that should do enough. That's more than enough Gary Yo All right, so they're supposed to be like the Avengers from what I understand war for bikini bottom I Feel like this is gonna be very epic.  Oh? Oh Wait, they're bulletproof. Oh, mr. Krabs Squidward. Oh, nice one That's gonna leave a mark. Oh Squidward. Oh Sandy with it. No, Sandy Sandy got hood broke. Oh nice headshot Bro poor Sandy. No way. They killed her already. What are you gonna do Patrick? Oh Oh Holy cow, man. You got a cannon under wow. Oh, we got the spatula Money oh my Yo, okay, it seems like team SpongeBob is getting picked off one by one Patrick.   I just know it. I know Spongebob gonna get it to be continued No way. I know Spongebob's gonna get paid back for his boys. Alright, so that is a part one They do have a part two. This is a revenge of bikini bottom Okay, so it seems like now since bikini bottom got wiped out in the first episode they're gonna get revenge. I Think it's a little recap. Okay. No, it's not.  Wait, where did he just float? The bikini bottom is destroyed After their wake of destruction, they got on their boats and left us to rot They have taken everything from us. Those of us left are barely holding on Damn time to mourn. Oh F in the chat It's now time to fight back Plankton love inventing. He sure was good at it There must be something in this lab something to help us fight It's gotta be something There's always something man I'm pretty sure he left like a robot versions of them or something O2 serum I've invented a serum that allows it's secretaries to breathe on the surface I can't do this alone. I need a team All right, so thanks to plankton. They're gonna be able to breach the humans world and Attack them as they attack bikini bottom All right, it seems like Spongebob is assembling a new team Doing a sneak mission Today For the boys man I Kind of like this squad a little better cuz they got murdery man and barnacle boy You know, then they got Larry the lobster as he is the strongest of bikini bottom get revenge of bikini bottom Oh, they're gonna catch them slipping man. Oh Oh That's not talking about stuns be boy Let them know what's up, man That a freaking laser Okay, so as you can see they are very tiny compared to the humans What happened to his hand? Missing the hand. Yo That was very thug it man, then left. It's just going off left to the right. Oh Oh Rock a lot sir. All right, so they successfully took down a Little boat. Okay a few hours later a few hours later He just seen his homeboys Got wiped out the missions puff driving school Nah, bro. Y'all celebrating too early, man Good job team. This is only the beginning. Why are they partying, bro? We fight again Yeah, y'all messed up. Y'all should have kept fighting Dang, that's a lot. That is a lot of humans Bro, how many people did they get this time? Yo I made everything worse Yep, this is the end of bikini bottom Oh the flying Dutchman Doodle Bob What? This is this is epic, man The bubble buddies Oh, I forgot his name, man Uh The king I forgot his name too, man. It's been a while A king Neptune.   New mrs. Puff would have been Very sick with two double-edged swords. These are the jellyfish are fighting very Come on, man. Wait, what is that?  SpongeBob. That's the leader I remember when I first used him in the SpongeBob movie. I was terrified, man. No, Larry Come on, SpongeBob Do something bro. That was a kind of pedophile. Oh, what you gonna do, bro? What are you? a sponge SpongeBob SpongeBob did it for the boys, man He sacrificed himself. He's a true hero Sponge me boy He would never be forgotten, man Okay, now I'm getting sad, bro. It's just very saddening, man That is a memorable statue SpongeBob SquarePants Hero of bikini bottom Oh, that's his grandma right there, bro She's crying looking at her All right, this made me feel very sad, man. Even though it's a freaking cartoon All right, cool. So that is the end of the revenge of bikini bob now part three We got the legacy of bikini bottom All right, so far this thing has been very amazing, man. I wonder what could happen here Wait, what?  What just happened? You see Squidward?  Oh wow those glitter painting Hey, who is that? Wait, is that that tall SpongeBob? It is Okay, I did not see that coming man. Is that a freaking bomb? Dude, it's gonna blow Who would do such a thing? Bro, they destroyed the SpongeBob statue. What the heck, man This in the city as the SpongeBob memorial exploded. Who would do such a thing, man? Come on Put some respect on SpongeBob's name Will this sacrifice be in vain? This can't be the work of the humans Someone from bikini bottom is behind this They keep returning destroying all they touch You believe the humans might strike again for a third time? Yup, blowing up that statue is definitely the start of another fight We must prepare for the worst meet back here tomorrow SpongeBob and his friends his statue these attacks are all linked But right now I gotta visit grandma. She's been alone poor old grandma. Look at her. She's still sad, man Everybody's got to love their grandma Yo, they just looked at grandma's house. What the okay now He's just too much, man. They're systematic Whoever's doing this is erasing SpongeBob's whole legacy. It's someone from SpongeBob's past Could it be who could it be? I'm trying to think There could be a hit hit who could it be, man? I'm trying to think who it could be but I can't oh, okay Could it be a villain? Maybe all right, they need to get to the bottom of this because They are destroying SpongeBob's legacy and Has not been pretty. Oh, not that guy Oh, Patrick, I forgot it came out of his grave Oh, he has a beard now How did he survive That's true, man Gone but never forgotten The humans didn't work alone. We believe flats the flounder is helping them We have to find this trader and confirm our suspicions. I don't like that guy No one has seen flats for a while now. He used to live in the old lighthouse near the outskirts of town I know Patrick's gonna find them bro. The harpoons Human technology under water antenna, right? It seems like they were actually right It was uh flats the flounder whatever his name was Code as well as Mayday It's him.  Well, it's about time. Oh, no Patrick star you live For too long SpongeBob shadow loomed over me His success accounts. Yeah, this guy's definitely a hater I myself could never physically hurt him. So I devised a plan I pulled the strings behind the first two attacks If I couldn't hurt him the humans could But even in defeat SpongeBob was hailed a hero. I still saw his face everywhere Still loved by everybody.   This will not work SpongeBob is dead and bikini bottom is a shell of its former self A new age has come the flounders will take control now Embrace it or die We attack it dawn a final devastating attack on the bikini bottom And there's nothing you can do to stop us What We can't let him win. We have to warn everyone and prepare for the coming attack We have an advantage this time. We have time to prepare. Let's set up defenses That's a big battle's coming every person. This is everyone's fight The last final fight for bikini bottom I believe in you guys for fish All right, this is gonna be an all out war Dude that is a lot of freaking flounders Where's SpongeBob, man? Oh, he got RPGs and everything. He's like there might be too many flounders There you go. He's hating again, bro No Barnacle boy. Oh now he's going after mermaid man. No, everybody's getting taken out, man No, not pearl. Don't do a patch. You actually need to retreat, bro John Wick, this is what it comes down to Well, I was overlooked Because you're ugly, bro Everybody can remember you looking like that. Oh the alaskan bull worm. No way I did not expect that. All right for sure. Now they got the upper hand. Oh, bro chill I mean, he deserves it. Oh be remembered Legacy How lives you're in? Okay, now you now y'all come party, man. Patrick is now a man Where's Harambe? I don't see Harambe there.  All right. Well there we have it the war on bikini bottom Dude that thing escalated so fast. It felt like I was watching an actual movie like like a marvel movie or something Well, um shout out to stocky for his awesome animation I'll link them down below in the description so you guys can check them out if you want and uh Yeah, thank you all for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one


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Y Sh answers CIF this time in a debate. The final item of business today is a member's business debate on motion number 11158 in the name of David Stewart on world diabetes day 2014. This debate will be concluded without any questions being put. I would invite those members who wish to speak in the debate to please press the request to speak buttons now or as soon as possible. That's it, Mr Stewart. If you're ready, I would invite you to open the debate. You have seven minutes, so thereby to do so, please. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer, and I want to thank each and every MSP here today for their commitment to the cause of diabetes prevention, and they're sharing the vision of the International Diabetes Federation to live in a world without diabetes. I also welcome to the gallery this evening a group of lead diabetes nurses who've had a conference here today, in which I had the pleasure of speaking. The World Diabetes Day, and I quote the International Diabetes Federation, is a day that unites the global diabetes community to produce a powerful voice for diabetes awareness and advocacy. The idea theme for this year's World Diabetes Day is healthy living and diabetes. The day was created in 1999 by the IDF and the World Health Organization in response to growing concerns about the escalating health threat that diabetes poses. The day became an official United Nations Day in 2007, and the campaign draws attention to issues of paramount importance to diabetes world and keeps diabetes firmly in the spotlight. We are facing a global epidemic. 382 million people are living with diabetes. A further 316 million are at high risk of developing the disease. The IDF Diabetes Atlas confirms that 80 per cent of people with diabetes live in low and middle-income countries, and the socially disadvantaged are the most at risk. By last year, diabetes caused over 5 million deaths worldwide. Every six seconds, a person dies from diabetes and over 600 billion in healthcare spending. Without co-ordination and systematic action to prevent diabetes, in less than 25 years' time there will have been nearly 600 million people living with diabetes. Over the past two years, progress has been made driving political change for diabetes. Following the 2011 UN declaration of non-communicable diseases, the World Health Assembly in May last year saw a unanimous adoption by member states of a global action plan. There have been other international initiatives as well. A few short months ago, I strolled in the Melbourne summer sun from my hotel to the Victoria State Parliament house. I was due to speak to an unusual audience. Nearly 100 national champions for diabetes from far afield is Russia, Ukraine, Nigeria and Canada. In Africa, we had their first lady. All were elected members. All were advocates for diabetes. All represented their own countries. It was a privilege to be asked by the International Diabetes Federation to represent Scotland at the first-ever global forum of parliamentary champions for diabetes, and the next forum will be in Canada in 2015. I hope that Scotland will be represented again, perhaps by other members such as Annette Milne, who convenes the cross-party group on diabetes. The conference concluded with the signing of the Melbourne Declaration, which committed parliaments across the globe to ensure that diabetes is high in their political agenda. The declaration called on nations to have a higher emphasis on preventative work, on early diagnoses, management and access to adequate care and to ensure treatment and medicines available for all those living with diabetes. The association was the brainchild of the IDF, whose president is Sir Michael Hurst, former MP and ex-chair of Diabetes UK. I was proud to talk to the conference delegates about Scotland, but also about issues of international significance for diabetes. I'm proud to come from a nation with a strong track record on innovation and discovery. Scots like Fleming discovered penicillin, Scots like Watt, who created the steam engine and Scots like Bell, who invented the telephone. The association is where real strides can be made. In 1922, Professor John McLeod from Aberdeen, working with two other outstanding scientists, Dr Banting and Charles Bess, discovered insulin. McLeod and Banting win a Nobel prize for medicine in 1923, shared with Charles Bess. There have been other more recent political developments here in Scotland as well. Strong positive steps in caring for people with diabetes, such as the provision of insulin pumps to those who are under 18, but the number of people with the condition is rising, which will have serious effect on Scotland's immediate future. Beyond the grave social cost of the condition on individuals and families, there is a huge economic cost to the NHS in Scotland. Estimated at £1 billion annually, 80 per cent of that goes in managing avoidable complications. With the Melbourne declaration diabetes focus on the prevention diabetes, the Scottish Government must have a focus on the condition that properly reflects the size of the problem. For example, there are now more people living with diabetes in Scotland than with chronic heart disease. Two and a half times more people with diabetes than all cancers combined. Every year in Scotland, about 1,900 people have an emergency admission for diabetic K.A. A critical life-threatening condition that requires immediate attention. Over 40 per cent of those admissions are people under the age of 25. People with diabetes account for a fifth of hospital in patients at any given time, and a person with diabetes can face a reduced life expectancy of up to 14 years in Scotland. Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness on working-age people and the main contributor to kidney failure, amputation and cardiovascular disease, including heart attack and stroke. People with diabetes should be receiving their 15 healthcare essential checks from the NHS and previous action plans have been instrumental in taking this critical forward. The theme, as I said, is healthy living and diabetes. For example, I recently met Michael Matheson, who is speaking here this evening, with Jane Claire Judson from Diabetes Scotland. We talked about changing procurement for government, such as the new ferry contract, ensuring that when all food is served it should have carly, it should have fat and carbohydrate contents made clear in the menu. Good for those who are dealing with diabetes and good for those who are managing their weight. In conclusion, we have a great chance in Scotland not only to raise the bar in healthcare but to contribute to scientific and medical understanding across the globe. While Diabetes Day is an international opportunity for diabetes to be central stage with the focus on awareness, advocacy and best practice across the globe, we have to tackle the ticking time bomb. All we need to paraphrase Sir Walter Scott is the will to do and the soul to dare. Thank you very much. I now call on Eileen McLeod to be followed by Hanzala Malik. Four minutes or thereby please. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I would like to begin by congratulating my colleague Dave Stewart on securing this debate, as well as Diabetes UK, for the very helpful briefings and to say that I am now a new member of the cross-party group on diabetes, having just joined the other week and I am very much looking forward to working with my colleagues on the group. I wish to focus on one of the issues that Dave Stewart highlighted in his motion, and that is the experience of parents whose children are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and the importance of promoting education in an awareness of the early warning signs and symptoms of diabetes in children and young people. There is no question that receiving a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes for a child is a heartbreaking and life-changing experience for any parent and the amount of care that a child with type 1 diabetes needs can be very significant. I mean, parents speak of having to test blood glucose levels multiple times an hour through the night should an adverse event occur. Maintaining good blood glucose levels can be a daily struggle with parents fearing for their child's safety. Maintaining good blood glucose levels rise too high or drop too low and it can be a constant, sometimes nerve-wracking juggling act. Having said that, we should also note the level of support and assistance that is now very often available to parents. The roll-out of insulin pumps, for example, is regarded by many parents and indeed by diabetes UK as a very positive step forward and not only does the pump therapy remove to a very large extent restrictions but the flexible way in which the pump can be set to deliver insulin can benefit overall wellbeing and without wishing to be too technical an insulin pump can be calibrated very precisely according to the amount of carbohydrate in a meal and the pre-meal blood glucose level allowing for a very precise delivery of insulin and ideally improved control of blood glucose levels. Some health boards, Dumfries and Galloway, for example, use Dyson technology so that the insulin pumps data can be uploaded over the internet and this enables the diabetes team to examine it and recommend changes without the need for hospital appointments and the information is also there for parents and their child to see empowering them to take greater control over the management of the condition. Of course, the increasing prevalence of type 1 diabetes presents us with a significant public health challenge there is, as yet, no cure so sound management of the condition is a key tool available to help us tackle the serious complications which the condition can cause and since the incident of the condition is on the increase it is all the more important that parents are aware of the warning signs like sudden unexplained weight loss extreme tiredness, raging thirst and frequent urination are the key warning signs that parents should be aware of. So I warmly welcome Diabetes UK's campaign to raise awareness of the warning signs of type 1 diabetes and also to explain how children with diabetes will be treated as well as the support and advice that the organisation can offer on a wide range of issues including care for a type 1 diabetic when they start school and the provision of local support groups. So in conclusion, with the imminent publication of the diabetes improvement plan there has been a particularly timely debate on such an important issue as diabetes and I congratulate Dave Stewart once again for bringing this debate forward to the chamber this evening and I look forward to reading the improvement plan and I very much look forward to participating in the future work of the cross-party group on diabetes. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. Thank you. I now call on Hans Anna Mallick to be followed by Nenette Milne. Thank you very much and good evening, Presiding Officer. First please allow me to thank Dave Stewart for securing today's debate on diabetes. It is important to recognise the importance of diabetes in Scotland and the impact that it has on one's life and to promote the ways in which people can learn to continue their daily life with this medical condition. Figures from diabetes UK show that nearly a quarter of a million people in Scotland have diabetes. Scots diagnosed with diabetes have increased at an alarming rate over the past few years. According to Diabetes UK between 2006 and 2011 the number of Scots diagnosed with diabetes has increased by some 26%. It has become essential to recognise the Scots with early undiagnosed diabetes and to make these citizens aware of their medical condition also provide the appropriate care to ensure that their daily lives are not complicated due to this medical condition. In my many ethnic communities diabetes is not often recognised as a serious risk and could hinder one's daily life and one's surrounding families. Many South Asian communities in Scotland have higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes and are likely to be diagnosed at an early age than the indigenous community itself. In my constituency of Glasgow there are a number of volunteer organisations the Glasgow South group that is associated with diabetes UK and Chini Come meaning in English less sugar at home administered by Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland. These organisations tend to people that are newly diagnosed with diabetes and their families it provides information and various supports that would enable one to continue a daily life in a manner that caters to their new medical condition. Although there is some education and this health matter in my constituency but the education courses on diabetes across Scotland wide are scattered at best. Providing education and support of health lifestyle to those diagnosed with diabetes is essential component in ensuring Scots with diabetes to have a high standard of life and betterment. As a diabetic I am aware of the problems we suffer and the lack of treatment through Scottish Government and NHS policies for example refusing to fit bandings to people who suffer from diabetes my understanding is that that would reduce nearly 80% of the diabetic community at a stroke and excusing the pun and also I think it is important that when we realise that we have a serious problem we realise that there is a growing dependency on the national health service when we know the diabetes results in kidney failure and many other ailments like eyesight for example which I have already gone on an operation already as a diabetic. These are challenges that face us today and we need to address some of the issues that we have in not only treating diabetes but actually treating it seriously in terms of recognising the implication it has on our communities and how we then take the message to them. I think the fact that minority communities in particular suffer largely I think it is important that we take that message home more seriously and more vigorously. I know that at times it has been made particularly in larger cities but the rural areas quite clearly suffer from that lack of information and I would look forward to the minister's comments on how he intends to deal with that issue. Thank you very much. Thank you. I now call on Annette Milne to be followed by Chief Brody. Thank you Deputy Presiding Officer. I will be taking part in a debate to acknowledge this year's World Diabetes Day and congratulate David Stewart on once again securing parliamentary time to bring to our attention this international event which since its inception in 1999 has been important in raising the profile of diabetes across the globe. David Stewart has acknowledged Sir Michael Hurston valuable work in diabetes but David himself has been a tireless campaigner for people with diabetes in Scotland throughout his parliamentary career both in Westminster and as a member of this Parliament we have worked together in recent years alongside Diabetes Scotland to raise awareness of the condition in an on-going effort to prevent its development where possible and mitigate its long-term and very serious complications. With, as we know, 382 million people worldwide currently living with diabetes and that number predicted to rise to 592 million by 2035 the condition is reaching pandemic proportions and beyond those already diagnosed it is thought that a further 316 million people are at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes. In Scotland over 268,000 people have been diagnosed and will need help to manage their condition in order to avoid its complications. What is really concerning is that many people with diabetes still go undetected their condition unrecognised until they begin to develop its serious and life-threatening consequences. Globally it is thought that up to 50% of those people remain diagnosed a very serious challenge for all of us and in Scotland it is estimated that one in five people either have diabetes or are at high risk of developing it costing our NHS £1 billion each year 80% of which goes on potentially preventable complications. We all know that types 1 and 2 diabetes are distinctive entities with type 1 generally starting when people are young and it is unavoidable whereas type 2 is generally a condition of later life and its onset can often be prevented by leading a healthy lifestyle. It is very important to be able to recognize the symptoms of diabetes whatever its type because the earlier it is diagnosed and properly managed the less likely are its complications. Diabetes Scotland's campaign to raise awareness in children and young people by highlighting the symptoms and warning signs and encouraging them to eat healthily and exercise regularly is to be commended and supported. The same regime of physical activity and healthy eating is important to all of us of course and by leading this type of life we can help to avoid the pitfalls of obesity one of the most serious of course being the development of type 2 diabetes because in modern western society there are very many and sadly an increasing number of people who are very significantly overweight and this is undoubtedly leading to an earlier onset of type 2 diabetes with some people in their teens now having the condition and the earlier the onset the sooner people are likely to develop the complications of kidney, eye and cardiovascular disease. These not only compromise their health and wellbeing they may also result in premature death and in the process put a great deal of pressure on NHS resources. This gives us in Scotland a particular challenge because despite improvements in life expectancy and health outcomes there are still significant differences for people with diabetes depending on deprivation ethnic population and life circumstances. Everyone living with diabetes should have equality of access to appropriate health services and this is not yet the case. The message of world diabetes day 2014 campaign is a simple one that the healthy choice can actually be the easy choice. The campaign aims to inform children and young people how to make the right choices about what they eat one of the most valuable being to start the day with a healthy breakfast. By educating them now in a fun and engaging way on the importance of a healthy diet and regular physical activity we will help to protect the health and wellbeing of young people and future generations and also achieve better health outcomes for people who currently suffer from diabetes and those at risk of developing it. To conclude, I commend the campaigning work of Diabetes Scotland which we will celebrate here next Tuesday during this year's World Diabetes Day's parliamentary reception. I thank David Stewart once again for leading the debate. Thank you. Many thanks. I now call on Jack Brody to be followed by Rhoda Grant. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I also add my thanks to David Stewart for bringing this motion to the chamber this evening and also to congratulate Annannette Milne on the work that they do in the cross-party group. As the motion says, Friday is World Diabetes Day led by the International Diabetes Federation and this is the 23rd World Diabetes Day. Diabetes poses serious concerns to one's health. I have, I don't suffer from but I have Diabetes Type 2. I'm one of the 238,750 in Scotland who are in the same position all rattling around Scotland to the tune of Metaformin and other light tablets. I like to think that I complement or avoid that with my 5 a day augmented by daily bowl of porridge cholesterol lowering spread in 15 minutes of exercise every day. That doesn't hide the fact however that I am diabetic. I know my underlying figure would deny that but the harsh fact is that I do. Had I lived less healthily and been subject to the oppression of deprivation I would have been in a terrible place and that's why I welcome this call again to focus on the issue of diabetes. Diabetes affects people disproportionately in the areas of deprivation. The deprivation rates in Scotland vary from 29% to 26% in various areas. Those in the most deprived areas have reduced life expectancy higher smoking rates and unfortunately lower engagement with the health services which has to change. I applaud the nurses who are with us because there are 12% of the inpatient budget on treating diabetes. The Scottish Government's action plan impending Diabetes Improvement Plan will help strategically to address the problem and through promoting self-management of the condition, through effective education and minimising the impact of potentially serious complications increasing availability as Aileen McLeod mentioned on intensive insulin treatment for people with type 1 and creating a stronger emphasis on screen and prevention of diabetes. In all of this I congratulate David Stewart and Nanette Millon for their unstinting efforts in the pursuit of promoting the needs of doctors to use the tools available to them to ensure anyone with diabetes in Scotland receives timely data on matters affecting their condition. For example, I confirm again personally the regular demands to attend my retinopathy test and I have on my desk a card which allows me to test my diabetes condition and cholesterol levels on the internet. The early identification of those with diabetes is key in all of this. I welcome the Scottish Diabetes Group working with others to deliver us because there must be emphasis on education accessibility to services in this particular area. The best way to tackle the growing epidemic of diabetes is to tackle the issue in childhood. I commend the Live for it joint venture between Diabetes Scotland and the Edinburgh International Science Festival. The project so far has reached 1,191 pupils and has worked in 18 schools. Importantly, the programme is designed to tackle childhood obesity and ties into curriculum for excellence in health and wellbeing and is delivered to schools in areas of high deprivation. The World Diabetes Day campaign underpins and will underpin all of this and the slogan Diabetes Protect Our Future will raise the profile of the 2014 campaign with its focus on healthy living and diabetes. In hopes and one beliefs that will all the emphasis and continue to raise the profile with the support of those that we have in the gallery today and others that the message will continue to get through more and more strongly and I welcome the debate this evening. Many thanks. I now call on Roda Grant after which I moved the closing speech from the minister. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I want to add my congratulations to David Stewart for securing this debate and the debate itself raises awareness of both types of diabetes and I think that that is really important because early diagnosis is crucial to the treatment of diabetes. Late onset or type 2 diabetes is much more likely to be picked up because it happens to adults. They obviously experience the symptoms and are able to communicate them to their GPs with that information to work on as well as looking at things like age and weight and lifestyle of the patient. However, with type 1 it is much more difficult, as Eileen McLeod said it is often very young child that becomes unwell. They may not be able to communicate how they feel properly and it can sometimes be quite hard to diagnose in sport and sometimes it needs to reach a crisis before a diagnosis takes place which is not ideal. There are some innovations in the treatment of diabetes for example insulin pumps for type 1 that have helped people to take better control of their condition that has not really changed their condition or indeed changed their dependence on insulin but it does allow them some better control. For both types of diabetes you tend to be dependent on some kind of drug therapy for the rest of your life. You also have to be very careful about what and when you eat and things like going out for a drink with friends also have to be planned because the impact that alcohol can have on blood sugar levels and that can impact on your diabetes control as well. It sometimes feels like we haven't come very far on the treatment of diabetes although there are some new drugs now available that could help the condition and we wait to see how they will pan out but we do need a lot more research and development into the medication treatment and causes of diabetes especially type 1 diabetes which is very difficult to identify what exactly causes it. Diabetes is not just dangerous because of the fluctuating blood sugar levels that can left unmanaged actually be lethal. It's also dangerous because of the impact it has on your overall health. Hanzala Malik mentioned kidney failure and the impact on your side but it also can lead to heart disease, circulation problems, difficulty in healing and at some points amputation which can be extremely serious for the diabetic. New medications can help to alleviate that but we need to do an awful lot more in bringing forward medications and treatments to help. We also need to stress the importance of exercise ways of keeping people fit as they get older and it's sometimes difficult saying to people who are getting older and their joints are beginning to creak a bit to take more exercise but there are other activities that can provide the same value and maybe don't have the same impact and we also need to inform people about diet. I think we're all a wee bit dependent and we've got busy lives we depend on fast foods, microwave meals we need better nutritional information but also the knowledge of how to use that nutritional information young people aren't taught for instance in school anymore about what is good for them and what actually leads to a balanced diet. We need also to review the way we provide care and support and it will be good maybe to get an update from the minister as he sums up how best practice has been rolled out how our managed clinical networks are working and indeed how the excellent work carried out by the diabetes audit and research and Tayside has been used to inform other health boards and to improve the care and treatment of those with diabetes so therefore we need to really look at how we roll out best practice. We also maybe need to look at schools especially for very young type 1 diabetics when they first go to school and inform teachers about how to manage their condition for instance making sure they eat before they take part in PE lessons and the like. Just a little bit of information and a little bit of input from teachers can actually make the life of parents and children a lot better. Presiding officer just in summing up I really welcome this debate because it actually does shine a spotlight on diabetes and it's very important that that happens because as we've heard from other speakers diabetes is on the increase and we really need to look at prevention and cure. Many thanks. I now call the minister to close the debate on behalf of the Government. Minister seven minutes are thereby. Thank you Presiding Officer. Can I like others of my congratulations to do in securing time for this debate in marking world diabetes day but also to recognise expertise he brings to the chamber in his contribution to the area as along with the net mill and the co-chair of the cross-party group here in the Scottish Parliament. I also want to recognise the work that Dave Stewart has also undertaken at an international level with the parliamentarians for diabetes global network in Melbourne. I must confess the idea of our Strone in Melbourne sunshine at this time of the year in Scotland is very appealing I should say. This debate I do believe gives us an opportunity to underline the very serious challenge which diabetes presents us in Scotland but also to outline the work that we have taken forward to improve the lives of those who live with diabetes. Some members have made reference to already the International Diabetes Foundation have estimated that one in ten of the world's population will be living with diabetes by 2035 and as the net mill highlighted in her contribution the Scottish figures for 2013 saw the number of people with diabetes increase to over 268,000 that's 5% or one in 20 of our population. Those figures along with the figures that Dave Stewart and others have highlighted in their own contributions I think are very sobering and they do demonstrate the significant challenge that we face. However in Scotland I do believe that we are particularly well placed to answer this challenge. Earlier this year we hosted our Diabetes in Scotland conference which solved over 300 members of the Scottish and international Diabetes community coming together to discuss how we can improve our services to make life better for people with diabetes and to share good practice. How fortunate we are in Scotland to have such very strong clinical leadership engaged through our Diabetes teams and with a very active patient voice on how that is taken forward. I want to therefore take this opportunity to pay tribute in particular to the lead clinicians who have chaired the Scottish Diabetes group over the past decade. Professors John McKnight Donald Pearson and Professor Andrew Morris who made this particular event such a success and to know their work which is aimed at ensuring Diabetes services in Scotland are second to none. Our national Diabetes programme has helped to co-ordinate safe, effective and person-centred Diabetes care across Scotland for over a decade now. Many of you will be as some have already referred to familiar with our Diabetes action plan. Over the past few years, this plan has been absolutely key to driving forward improvements in a number of important areas of Diabetes care including delivering state-of-the-art e-health solutions to monitor progress, to improve foot care services, to increase access to insulin pump therapy and to enhance knowledge and skills among our staff. It's important that we build on this work going forward to strive to continually improve our Diabetes services year on year here in Scotland. That's why earlier today I agreed to the publication of our new Diabetes improvement plan, which will be published by the end of this month. Our improvement plan aims to build on the existing work of the Diabetes action plan by focusing on key priority areas and challenges of the Scottish Diabetes community to deliver continuous improvements in the quality of care available to people with Diabetes. A key part of that will be building on the work that has been identified, particularly those at higher risk within our ethnic minority communities in order to see continued improvement going forward. Although I don't have sufficient time to go into great depth all of the successes of our Diabetes programme or to set out all the areas of the new improvement plan and what it will cover, but I would like to take this opportunity to set out some of our work today. A key measure of Diabetes care in Scotland is our Scottish Diabetes survey, perhaps the most comprehensive national record of its kind possibly in the world. One of the major successes is to highlight from the most recent survey is that the percentage of people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes who have had their foot risk recorded has doubled between 2008 and 2013 to around 80 per cent. That will have a major impact on reducing foot ulcers and lower limb loss. That is a result of the evidence taken forward by our world-leading system of foot risk triage system which was developed by our Diabetes foot care action group here in Scotland. Working in a way to make sure that people with diabetes who are at most risk of developing foot complications receive the care that they require and that it's a inventive approach that is taken forward. The second area to highlight is the very substantial improvements that we have made in accessing insulin pumps which several members have made reference to. I am very pleased to note that we have made a significant level of progress in this area. That hasn't always been easy in moving forward this area of progress across all health boards within the country as Dave Stewart and others will recognise, but we also have a significant increase in the level of insulin pumps being made available to adults and children. We have now met an overall aim of ensuring that across Scotland 25 per cent of people under 18 have access to insulin pumps. To put this in some context we have gone from some 8.4 per cent of our under 18s with diabetes having access to an insulin pump in 2011 to 27.5 per cent across the country being on an insulin pump. However, I want to reassure the chamber that we are certainly not complacent and we want to ensure that the target is met on a consistent basis across all of our health boards by March 2015. However, improvement services for people who already have diabetes is not enough. We need to address underlying risk factors that lead to the development of type 2 diabetes and to identify diabetes among young people earlier if we are to safeguard their future health in Scotland. Earlier this year the World Health Assembly announced its global target to help the rise of diabetes and obesity by 2025. This is a very ambitious aim, but rightly so it very much complements our focus on preventing type 2 diabetes and it complements our work in taking forward factors that can influence the risk factors on someone developing type 2 diabetes. We are working to encourage people to make lifestyle changes such as adopting a healthier diet, managing their weight and increasing their level of physical activity as was correctly highlighted as being key components of our contribution. We have committed spending of some £7.5 million in the present spending period on healthy eating projects to support people to make healthier eating choices. In addition to that, we have provided improvement funding to several other stakeholders over the past year including Diabetes Scotland to support projects to encourage healthier eating and lifestyle choices. We are also committed to the industry about proposals to improve dietary health in last month. I met with Diabetes Scotland and Dave Stewart along with the Food Standards Agency to explore this further in public procurement and we will continue that dialogue to see if there are further measures that we can take forward. It is not only essential to support people in making healthier lifestyle choices to avoid diabetes but also to identify those who have diabetes earlier. Type 1 diabetes tends to present more acutely than type 2. However, a key part of the work that we have taken forward is to make sure that we continue to drive forward earlier identification. Our paediatric and adolescent group are developing a range of materials for GP surgeries and admitting departments designed to support healthcare professionals. Recognise the symptoms of diabetes in young people much more quickly to ensure earlier diagnosis and we will be looking to roll that out over the coming months. I have also said in motion the work for our public health sector to take a much more proactive role in prevention of conditions such as diabetes. As a result, I announced last week that there will be a review of public health services in Scotland with the initial findings arriving with ministers in 2015 with a view to continue to improve public health provisions in Scotland with the preventive agenda being at the centre of it. On my remarks to a close, it is clear that our NHS in Scotland have delivered real improvements in the care of people with diabetes in the last few years. Now more than ever, we need to make sure that we work forward in a stronger collaborative effort with all stakeholders and agencies to make sure that we create a health promoting and diabetes-aware culture in Scotland. I can assure members that our new improvement plan will look to build on that progress in the coming years. I thank you all and I now close this meeting of Parliament.


Hello and welcome to the Grand Line review source for everything One Piece. My name is Liam and I ended up doing some arts and crafts during this chapter review. Say hi to Mum and Osuke. And of course today we have a review of chapter one thousand and twelve which features a whole ton of variety because this is what a lot of people would refer to as like a setup or transitional chapter I don't know whatever you want to call it. It's basically Oda looking at all of the pieces that he's meticulously set up on his chessboard then deciding to just knock half of them off and replace them elsewhere. It's a big old mix-up and that is in no way a bad thing because every shake-up leads to a whole new sense of unpredictability going forward. And the best thing about chapters like these to me is that they cram so many characters and fun interactions into a single sitting. So you tend to get a little bit of everything and it's hard not to be satisfied with that. Just as I'm sure it would be very difficult not to be satisfied with consistent injections of One Piece culture and misted straight into your YouTube feed so good news you yes you can achieve that very effect by subscribing to the Grand Line review. This amazing Grand Fleet is almost at 500,000 members and that's like half a million in another way of saying numbers. So let's get there and continue to become the Pirate Kings of this very specific niche corner of YouTube. But getting into the thing that we're here for, first up we have a segment continuing to fracture and scatter the vassals which is quite fun because they're all slowly falling into place against what would seem to be their assigned arch-opponents. In 1012 Kiku surprises me quite a bit because she essentially claims the right to bring down Kanjiro. Probably shouldn't have surprised me too much in retrospect because I imagine that she feels somewhat responsible for allowing that whole Odin shenanigans to happen. I really like this though because one of the big complaints that I and actually many many many people had in regards to Kiku vs Kanjiro was that it happened off screen and you know I don't usually care about off-screening fights in fact in a lot of cases I think it's the right decision to make for the story but this was a different matter given that it resulted in a death a fake death but still a death but I think setting Kiku up for another clash with Kanjiro is a great way to relitigate this whole conflict. Also how could I not be hyped to see more of Kiku in combat mode? Kiku of the Falling Snow is probably the most terrifying protagonist that we have on our side at the moment and I'm very keen to see her cut-up Kanjiro piece by piece which is what he deserves. But also within this chapter Kiku had an incredibly important moment with Iso where they talk a bit whilst on the run and Kiku acknowledges how she felt when Iso just up and vanished from Wano. It's strange to think about but we really haven't had a proper moment between these two siblings there was that super brief reunion where Kiku got all teary and everything but the narrative of one piece just moves so damn quickly that we never really have time to linger and have these conversations especially not at this point in an arc so to make things satisfying Oda has to cram these interactions in wherever possible and I think he does a great job of that for the most part although it does tend to draw my attention to the fact that uh yeah we've not really had a proper conversation between these two and there's another moment of realization like that in this section of the chapter as well actually. Nekamamushi found out about Pedro's death which is something I'd completely forgotten that he did not know. Makes sense of course it makes all the sense in the world. Nekamamushi hasn't spoken with anyone since so although I suppose Inorashi may have been able to inform him but look we'll forget about that. The interesting thing is though Pedro's death is just such unbelievably old news to us readers and even watchers that it's a bit of a jolt seeing a character find out about it for the first time. A good jolt that is because this is my favorite vassal setup thus far. I am beyond keen to see a Nekamamushi vs. Parisborough fight because sure the candy man may have been able to take down a dog and a carrot but Sulong Garfield is going to be a very different story and I think the Parisborough is going to collapse before him like a vat of delicious lasagna. Well and just for the full zone nostalgia effect Barriete also makes an appearance who is the teeny tiny monkey who guards the gates of the kingdom and I like that he gets his only like a little reintroduction text as if he is in any way an important character that you know what good on him for participating in the raid.  During this chapter she all on her own had a triple threat showcase of action drama and comedy starting out with comedy of course and it was pretty hilarious to see Nami attempt to make an ally of big mom then ulti. So what's the old saying the enemy of my enemy is my friend well as it turns out nope this is where Nami shines though because her comedy is often I mean how do I express this it's not as clean as most of the other straw hats like for example with Luffy his comedy is entirely due to being an innocent moron whereas Nami has this great range of incredibly shallow deception at her disposal like just the idea that Nami would blame ulti for an event that she may not have caused I find that hilarious and then to have no shame whatsoever and try to do the reverse with ulti I love it but that was just the disarming setup and firstly actually ulti I love ulti I praised ulti in my reaction video to the world top 100 results but a line was certainly crossed here firstly as a dog person impaling Komatsu like that is a big no no but when she started kicking Komatsu when he was down well that was it this is one of those moments where I knew that she was going to be smacked down imminently like within mere panels because Oda doesn't tend to go quite that cruel outside of a flashback unless there's going to be an immediate sense of relief and dare I say even justice although I definitely expected that justice to be delivered by big mom so seeing that next page with Nami laying some proper smackdown on ulti was mmm a very welcome surprise which of course ticks out Nami action box but my favorite piece of art in the chapter is the final panel with Nami's look of pure rage and she had determination in her eyes to make ulti pay not pay pay we're talking pay and this of course ticks out Nami drama box Nami did it all in 2012 or at least she did the big three but I should also say that ulti's actions got so much worse by attacking Tama because that was pretty brutal it's a very small panel but when you look at it Tama got like properly swiped with blood gushing and everything so you know what ulti you deserve everything that's coming your way and probably a bit more oh and one big important ulti thing I saw this pointed out by Brian Newton on Twitter but there is a salacious yet accidental mouth reveal in this chapter when ulti is rushing towards big mom for whatever reason she does not have her mask on I mean it's clear mistake and it's one of those things that's going to be fixed up with the proper volume release but I just find it really interesting because I personally did not notice at all and even though I was literally about to upload what I thought was this finished video I saw this on Twitter and went hmm damn other people need to know about this this whole ulti has a mouth thing so and now you know and back to whatever it is I was talking about what I'm a bit more interested in at the moment is what the reaction of big mom is going to be I mean I feel like this won't change anything but maybe just seeing Nami fight on behalf of Tama will activate something but I'm not sure probably not all I can say is that this Nami moment is not to be understated she is in the presence of one of the four emperors of the sea who has declared very open hostilities and instead of doing the reasonable thing of running away Nami has decided to stay and fight on principle alone that is a big big step up for Nami and one that I've wanted to see for years and years and years now well I mean if there was any doubt that Nami deserved her third place finish in the world top 100 character poll then surely it's all been obliterated by this singular page next up we move to Sanji and Zoro which I'm sure the entire internet has made this comparison by now but Sanji carrying Zoro gives me some serious Wolfwood vibes which is pretty amazing because if I remember trigon correctly his full name is actually Nicholas D. Wolfwood so we've got some unintentional references happening in both directions here a mutual referencing if you will anyway here we're invoking the old manga trope of bandages heal everything because even though Sanji is not a doctor it looks like Zoro was going to be just fine and he's even suggested that Sanji just head on over to the performance floor which I didn't quite get at first like it's such a specific and odd suggestion but narratively it puts Zoro on a collision course with Chopper and or Marco who might be able to properly heal him and not only that but it does bring Sanji back into the mix to potentially face off against either king or queen although I do have to say I'm very much at the point where I really really just want Sanji to have some sort of clear purpose I've said this before in a chapter review but he really has the most muddled crazy part of anyone in this entire raid you know he started on the performance floor then he escorted Luffy then got distracted by Black Maria managing to set up Robin in the process then he decided to head to the roof to help the vassals and he changed his mind headed back down to find Momonosuke and now he's stuck carrying Zoro all the way back to the performance floor which I need to emphasize is exactly where Sanji started to begin with I mean what he's now done like a full lap of Onigashima so you know what Sanji no more running no more running until you beat either the obese dinosaur or the gimp dinosaur I don't care which one it is you get to choose but I should say that Sanji is definitely proving my theory about him though I suppose which is that he is the ultimate utility straw hat his character serves as a fantastic vehicle to set up moments for other characters even in this chapter he's quite literally propping up Trafalgar lore in this one panel who is doing his best to look elegant aft despite being heavily heavily wounded and you know what in fact this panel kind of reminds me of Dressrosa when Luffy was carrying Laura and Zoro towards Doflamingo except that Zoro and Laura very much switched roles here I also get very strong hall cake island vibes during this section because Zoro and Sanji have a rare moment of understanding which of course occurs when discussing Luffy Zoro firms to Sanji that Luffy is going to be Kaito and Sanji is just sort of like yeah brah I knew that already which takes me back to Luffy versus Kaito Kuri where Sanji claimed that Kaito Kuri was going to experience his first defeat with this profound sense of confidence you love to see it it's such a simple and common thing but I enjoy the faith that all of the straw hats have in Luffy like it didn't even need to be Sanji that we were talking to here any one of them would have responded in the exact same way I'm also curious about Mr. Lore though I think this chapter implies that he's going after Big Mom as well so at the moment he's on the way to collide with that group and maybe kid actually and in fact there's almost an infinite number of ways that this could play out and how these characters could interact which is sort of what I mean by Oda knocking the pieces off the board just to place them elsewhere because this chapter is really just one big refresh on a ton of characters who now have new goals and destinations several of which we are unaware of which makes things insanely difficult to predict and hey that's exactly how I prefer it to be I would say that by far the most important part of the chapter is probably the most underrated and that would be this whole Yamato section there was some really big seeds being planted here because Yamato has now left Momonosuke and I think is heading upwards to help Luffy if so all I can say to that is hell yes I've wanted Yamato in this fight since the very first moment of Revelation Yamato is a beast like quite literally because remember the teeth and everything and I just I crave more Yamato action pieces especially if it happens to be against Kaito so I'm a big fan of this because for a while there it looked like Yamato might be going the way of Robin in Dressrosa you know the sort of glorified arc caretaker of arc child but speaking of child Momonosuke now has Odin's journal and holy crap in mere minutes this childling is probably going to become one of the most knowledgeable people in the world regarding essentially every major mystery that we've been seeking so I think that mama will be a very changed boy the next time we see him that all we'll check in on him mid-revelation and he will deliver us some juicy juicy information by the way it's going to be fun also I've noticed that this really cute thing that Shinobu is doing like she's pretending to respect the privacy of this Kozuki legacy but also blatantly peeking at the jump which is what I love about the one-o ninjas both Shinobu and Raizo are trained to be in theory the absolute epitome of stealth and yet both of them fail so blatantly at the easiest of stealth based tasks it's cute I like it that as much as I love Yamato's hastily constructed Momonosuke body double which I kind of want and good news I suppose because it would appear to be a very easily homemade object to construct that Momonosuke looks so easy to make in fact I wonder could I could I make my own Momonosuke in like the next 10 minutes turns out I can I made this I spent time making this it took me legit like two minutes I'm pretty proud of it I think it looks quite accurate and maybe you should all go and make your own mama decoys as well and now this is the part of the video where I tell you to click on another video which you should absolutely do because we can never have enough one piece and while this chapter may be over we still have plenty to talk about so I look forward to seeing you there talk about the things that we need to talk about


Rwy'n gwis pois i'n mynd i'n yourdaneth o brryfau ymwgreenaeth panai cofridolion a'r cyflaesau oherwydd o'r cadw iawn yn ddechrau'r Cymru, fel allanfaith iawn yn gŵr i papallu cyflaeddoedd. Yn cael ei gwybod cyflwysoedd, mae'n cwmpas i bwysigio panfodolion ymw�n. Mae'n cwmpas i bwysigio panfodolion i'r cwmpas a'r cwmpas i bwysigio'r cwmpas i bwysigio oedd ein clywer o'r ddafyn nid o'r cyfrifon sylwyr yn rhaid o'i ddow�iaeth ar hyn o'r ddau, ac rwyf yn Digw ddawr pan ddyn nhw'n mynd o'r ddau sylwyr yn ddawr ar hyn o'r ddawr chyfrifon sylwyr yn ddawr? Mae'n hynny'n ddim bwysig yn gweld, wrth gwrs, am hynny'n ddawr, o'r ddawr a朝 ar y cyfrifon There has been no change to the recruitment policy for education agencies following my announcement to replace the SQA and reform Education Scotland. There remains a matter for the individual agencies and is publicly available in Education Scotland and the SQA's framework agreement. I am committed to the continued support for the SQA and Education Scotland to ensure that they have sufficient resources to meet their functions during this transitional period. Russell Finlay. I have been looking at many job adverts for the soon-to-be overhauled Education Scotland. The quango is right now looking for a head of leadership learning, apparently. I quote, This person will lead and coordinate the work of the professional learning and leadership directorate, providing national support for professional learning and leadership development. The head of leadership learning will work closely together with the head of professional leadership and learning to bring a coherent approach to professional learning and leadership learning and development on a local, regional and national basis. Sorry, that was not my fault. That was their advert. I know you make your point if you have a question. I know you have a priority. This lucky person will get up to £77,000 a year for this role. Can the cabinet secretary explain the benefits of these lucrative quango jobs to pupils and parents? Would this money not be better spent on teachers? The Government is investing heavily in additional teachers. Within the first 100 days alone, we have made that commitment and we have taken action upon it. Education Scotland and the SQA continue to have exceptionally important roles in supporting teachers to support our learners during this transitional phase. I trust that all those working in Education Scotland and those who will reply to the job advertisements that are available will do their utmost to support our education system through this difficult time, supporting our teachers to support our learners. On the assumption that they are not going to read out job descriptions to brief supplementaries, Martin Whitfield first, please. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. No job description. But could ask the cabinet secretary to undertake today that she will wholly fund the new agency from the Scottish Government rather than require it to raise resources as the current SQA must do, diverting attention from its core purpose. The remit and role and functions of the replacement to the SQA is something that will be reported on by Ken Muir, who is due to report to me back in January. The ability for the Scottish Qualifications Authority to seek recompense from local authorities is not something that is a loan to Scotland. However, if Ken Muir wishes to put in a submission on those issues, or indeed anyone wants to put in submissions to Ken Muir as he carries on that work, I am sure that he will listen closely to that, and I will listen closely to the recommendations that come from that. Will it be possible to recruit staff who are able to produce timely guidance, unlike yesterday's guidance, that notes that further guidance will be produced in October for this year's qualifications? Two months into the school year. How on earth does that help pupils and teachers? The first guidance that came out before the summer holidays is an additional measure that gives additional detail to that. It is quite right that the SQA is working with stakeholders through the national qualifications group to look at what guidance can be put in place and then put that out as expeditiously as possible once that has been agreed. It is rather sensible of the SQA to do that in stages when there is agreement reached, rather than waiting too long, because often the SQA and other organisations are criticised for taking too long on those approaches. The contingencies that the SQA gave further detail on yesterday have stressed the fact that there is no increased workload, for example, for teachers, which I think was a very useful and, I hope, reassuring statement that the SQA put out. I think that they were quite right to do that in the quickest way that they have, and they will, as they say, provide further guidance and due course once that has gone through the stakeholder consultation through the NQ group. To ask the Scottish Government what information and resources schools will provide to engage pupils with the issues that will be discussed at COP26. While it is a matter for schools and authorities to decide the details of how to engage with COP26, Education Scotland is co-ordinating a package of learning materials and live online engagement with schools, education authorities and national partner agencies. Schools are also supported to engage with COP26 to the Scottish Government-funded equal schools and climate-ready classrooms initiatives that support schools in planning action on climate change and other environmental issues through providing resources and training for educators and pupils. The Scottish Government may be aware of the Scottish Youth Film Foundation's COP-TV programme, which will feature films and interviews created by young people from all over Scotland during COP26. COP-TV will be broadcast into schools across the USA due to the foundation's partnership with the New York Times. Will the cabinet secretary be willing to liaise with the foundation's organisers and with Education Scotland to ensure that this programming is also made available to pupils in Scotland and can she offer any assistance so that the young people involved with COP-TV can access the conference of youth taking place? I was delighted to hear about the Scottish Youth Film Foundation's COP-TV programme, and we are working with organisations across Scotland, including Young Go, the UN's official youth constituency, who are hosting the conference of youth, to ensure that children and young people in Scotland have as many opportunities as possible to make their voices heard on the global stage. Education Scotland is liaising with the Scottish Youth Film Foundation to explore how young people can engage with COP through their plans, and Screen Scotland is also providing funding towards the climate challenge 1.5 degrees films project working with films access Scotland and other partners to support climate change filmmaking with young people in equal schools. To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has carried out of any sectorial skills and labour shortages in Scotland following Brexit. The Scottish Government Office of the Chief Economic Advisor has been working closely with Skills Development Scotland to carry out analysis of official labour market sources to provide insights into sectoral skills and labour shortages in Scotland following Brexit. In July, I, along with the Minister for Justice, Transition, Employment and Fair Work and the Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise, met with a number of business representative organisations to better understand their recruitment challenges, many of which have been directly linked to the United Kingdom Government's immigration policy. We have continued to engage with business and mitigation measures and we continue to press the UK Government to hear the concerns that have been raised and to act accordingly. Can I thank the minister for his answer? Brexit has impacted on many sectors of my constituency, leaving many businesses with skill shortages and increasing labour shortages. Can I ask what discussions have been held with the UK Government in regards to its post-Brexit immigration scheme and, in particular, to tier 2 into requirements, and does he agree with me that the best solution to this in the future is an independent Scotland that can make its own arrangements? Well, as I set out in my initial answer, we do seek to engage with the UK Government on these matters regularly. For instance, Richard Lochhead wrote to the UK Government in July on the post-Brexit immigration policy urging them to rethink this in light of skill shortages. Mary Gougeon wrote in August to highlight some of the challenges in the food and drink sector. Where we are now, I believe that the UK Government should be considering the paper that we have pulled together, Migration Helping Scotland Prosper, which outlines how devolution of migration could work. Of course, I agree with a member that independence is ultimately the best way to shape an immigration policy fit for Scotland's circumstances. To ask the Scottish Government what impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the positive destinations of school leavers. The Scottish Government has responded to concerns about the impact that the pandemic has had on young people who are introducing the young person's guarantee, providing £70 million of funding this year in addition to the £60 million that was allocated last year. In 2019, 20 data showed that 92.2 per cent of school leavers were in a positive destination at the nine-month point after the end of the school year. The 2021 figures will be available in due course. I thank the minister for his reply. In Falkirk, the number of apprenticeships has dropped from 587 last year to 160 this year. That is a fall that is replicated right across the country. What aboutary and without any defensiveness? Does the minister recognise that this is a disaster for young people, a disaster for businesses and a disaster for all of us? Is he satisfied that enough is being done to address the issue? What satisfies me is the positive news that, of course, we saw a significant impact on the number of apprentices who were recruited last year. How could we have added anything but, given that we are in a global pandemic and demand, we are suppressed. However, what we have seen in the first quarter of this year is 3.7 times the number of modern apprenticeship starts at the same time last year, in quarter one of the year before. We are recovering. In relation to his question about what aboutary, I take that as a reference to what is happening here in Scotland by comparison with the rest of the UK. I will update the chamber in regard to that in 2016-17. We had 26,262 apprenticeship starts by 2019-20, 27,875. That is up in England by contrast in the same period. They declined by 172,400 apprenticeship starts. To ask the Scottish Government how it is supporting Scotland's young people into employment, education or training. Of course, we have a range of initiatives that are under way. We have a developing the young workforce activity, which is now well embedded and now being accelerated and enhanced by the nearly 300 DYW school co-ordinators that are employed in every secondary school in Scotland. Of course, we have the young persons guarantee that I have mentioned, which will provide at least 24,000 new and enhanced employment education and training opportunities over a two-year period in addition to all the activity that we already had in place. To ask the Scottish Government what measures it is putting in place to support outdoor education. In addition to the £2.5 million that we provided to the sector over the last 18 months, we work with the sector on an on-going basis to support schools to access and use outdoor centres and ensure that our Covid-19 guidance provides clear advice on safe supported visits to centres. The most recent update to that guidance was on the 19th of August to remove caps on the numbers of young people within dorms and tents. The programme for government contains a number of further commitments to trial Scotland's first outdoor primary learning facilities to provide support for children to go on curriculum-related trips, including primary six and seven residential schools, and to give secondary school pupils the right to go on at least one optional trip during their time at school. Liz Smith, I thank the minister for that update. However, one of the most urgent concerns remains the future viability of around a third of our outdoor education centres and even more importantly the future employment of the very highly specialised members of their staff whose skills are absolutely crucial to the education of our young people, most especially after the Covid pandemic. Can I press the Scottish Government as to what it is doing to secure the future of our outdoor education centres? I thank Liz Smith for that question. She may well be interested to know that on the 10th of August I met with the Outward Bounds Trust Scotland's scouts and the chair of the Association of Heads of Outdoor Education centres and some of the issues that she's raised today were raised during that meeting. It was agreed that officials would follow up in order to gather more detailed information and evidence and a further meeting between officials has been arranged for the next few weeks. I'm going to call a supplementary for Collette Stevenson if it's on outdoor education. Thank you, Presiding Officer. To ask the Scottish Government what steps it's taken to ensure that the climate emergency is reflected in the learning of our children and young people. I call on the minister to tie that back into outdoor education. Our learning for sustainability action plan, which comprises climate education, contains actions to support teacher skills in sustainability education, to develop and promote qualifications relating to sustainability and encourage schools to take a whole-school approach. To coincide with the COP26 summit, Education Scotland is providing a series of online countdown to COP events to schools. The learning for sustainability awards 2021, which will be announced on 27 October, will also help to gather and share examples of sustainability education across Scotland. I'm sure that that will include outdoor education. To ask the Scottish Government how it will take forward the recommendation of Professor Gordon Stobart's review of upper secondary education student assessment in Scotland. Professor Stobart's work looks at approaches to qualifications and assessment taken around the world and sets out options for consideration in a Scottish context. We will draw on that work to inform wider conversations and ensure that our future qualifications and assessment approaches better align with the early stages of our curriculum and are accessible for all learners, including those with additional support needs and those from more deprived backgrounds. I'll provide a further update to Parliament in October as part of an update on the on-going implementation of OECD's recommendations from their review of curriculum for excellence. I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer. Professor Stobart's international comparison has been high stakes examinations and robust and adequately moderated continuous assessments highlights real opportunities to rebalance Scotland's model of certification to be less reliant on such high stakes exams. Having spoken with members of the Scottish Youth Parliament, with fellow members of the education committee just yesterday, I know that this is something many young people would not orderly welcome but be keen to be involved in shaping. Can the cabinet secretary provide any additional update to Parliament on the Scottish Government's latest thinking in that particular area? Can the cabinet secretary reassure young people that they will be involved meaningfully in discussions around reshaping Scotland's model of certification to help to ensure that young people receive the qualifications that they rightly merit? We are very much committed, as a Government, to ensuring the voices of young people, parents and teachers as well as practitioners that are at the centre of our education policy. We want it to be the norm for children and young people to be involved in the decision making process in Scotland. On 22 June, I outlined that we will reconvene the Scottish Education Council and we will ensure that the council includes young persons representatives. In addition, we are establishing the Children and Young People's Education Council to sit alongside the Scottish Education Council and to give that parity of esteem. That as well as wider engagement will help to ensure that children and young people's voices influence their education policy, including shaping any reform and qualifications. The cabinet secretary should not need a further review or committee to answer that yes or no question. Can she give a simple guarantee that Scottish pupils will still have the opportunity to gain an externally assessed exam-based qualification before leaving school? As I have said on numerous occasions, this Government is open to the opportunities that we have. It is not a simple or yes or no answer with the greatest of respect, Mr Mundell, because what we are doing is having a serious and detailed conversation about what assessments will look like. Yes and no does not quite cut it when you are in government. It might do for Mr Mundell's press release. As I was saying, this Government is very open to looking at the best way of doing assessments and qualifications in the future. What Professor Hobart has given us is a range of options. Many of the opportunities that we have is to combine assessments at the end of term exams with more continuous assessment, ensuring that we give everyone within Scotland the opportunity to develop to their full potential. That is something that I am determined to do. I certainly hope that the Opposition rises to the occasion to get past yes or no answers and have a detailed conversation including on exams and their role within the current setup and in any future setup and how we can actually take that to the next level to provide the best opportunity for Scotland's young people. Yesterday, the SQA published a two-page document stating that final decisions over the national qualifications in 2022 will be made next March. It lacked any detail over what criteria will be used to make that decision, particularly whether disruption will be based on a pupil by pupil, school by school, council by council or on a national basis of assessment. Will the education secretary give a statement to Parliament to clarify this very important issue? What the SQA said in its statement yesterday was to give further detail on what will happen under different scenarios. The aspect that the looked at is in scenario 1, where there will be increased disruption but exams will still be allowed to happen, and those changes can be made to vary late on in the process because it is about what will happen in the exams themselves. The other scenario that the SQA looked at is of course that the exams cannot happen because of the pandemic, and that is exactly why it has given the reassurance that this is about assessments to inform process, but that it will not require any additional workload for teachers. Yesterday's announcement gave a lot of certainty and a lot of reassurance to teachers, young people and parents. Of course, as we go through this year, it is a fluid and flexible situation. I am not sure whether Mr Marra has a crystal ball to know what the pandemic will look like in a couple of months' time, but I certainly don't. That is why we are continuing our discussion with stakeholders and why the SQA is continuing the discussion with stakeholders, including parents, teachers and young people, to ensure that we develop our understanding as we go. Of course, the SQA will give further detail in due course once those discussions have reached a point of making announcements. To ask the Scottish Government how it supports schools in delivering high-quality education for children with additional support needs. We are committed to ensuring that all children and young people get the additional support that they need to reach their full potential. We published our joint response to the independently chaired review of implementation of additional support for learning in October 2020. Angela Morgan's report sets a clear direction on how we will continue to work with partners to build on progress in this area, and the joint action plan sets out the measures that we will take to implement her recommendations. Due to CAMHS waiting times, border parents whose children live with ASN have been expressing how they find it difficult to gain a diagnosis, with some having to pay for a private assessment. Even then, private assessments are sometimes not accepted. In light of those difficulties, what additional resources can be made available to ensure that more assessments are done so that children with ASN can receive the appropriate educational arrangements that they are entitled to? I thank Rachael Hamilton for that question. If she would wish to provide my office with further details about the specific local concerns that she has raised, I would be more than happy to provide further detail on that on the local circumstances. However, she is absolutely right to point out that children and young people have been adversely affected by the pandemic. That includes children with additional support needs and those who may be waiting on diagnosis. There is additional funding that has gone into support local authorities and health boards, and there has been additional support going into the CAMHS service itself. However, if Rachael Hamilton has a particular issue in her local area, as I said, I would be more than happy to follow that up with her. I want to take two supplementaries that need to be very brief and the answers likewise. First, Karen Adam. To ask the Scottish Government what steps have been taken so far in appointing a commissioner for learning disabilities, autism and neurodiversity, and what role that commissioner is expected to play in ensuring a high-quality level of education for children with those specific additional support needs? As the First Minister announced in her programme for government, we are carrying out scoping work on the remit and powers of a learning disability, autism and neurodiversity bill in this parliamentary year, and that will include the work on a learning disability, autism and neurodiversity commissioner. To ask the Scottish Government to set out its plan for a transition strategy, which it was committed to in the recent programme for government. I thank Pam Duncan-Glancy for the question. I know that she is particularly keen to press the Government on and ensure that we are delivering on. We have made progress on the work with that in terms of meeting with stakeholders and working groups. I know that there has been recent meetings on that. I was not at that one particularly myself, so I will ensure that the minister is involved, which I think was clear hockey as part of that work with Christina McKelvie, and we can get further detail on that for you. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the work of the mental health in schools working group. The mental health in schools working group has overseen the development of new resources for school staff, including a new online professional learning resource, which was introduced in June 2021, and new guidance to support whole-school approaches to mental health and wellbeing, which was published in August 2021. The resources helped school staff to understand and respond to the range of mental health and wellbeing concerns that young people may experience. The Scottish Government will continue to work with the mental health in schools working group to embed those approaches right across Scotland. Cabinet Secretary, the working group's whole-school approach framework includes access to school counselling services. However, Aberty Aberdeenshire Council has identified a shortage of qualified and accredited counsellors in the north-east, which means that the counselling service will not be at full capacity until January 2023. Given the pressures on the children's mental health, what action is the Scottish Government taking to support the delivery of school counselling services? Ms White will know that the Scottish Government has provided support to local authority partners to ensure that every secondary school has access to counselling services, because we want to ensure that those who require that support will do so. If there are particular workload issues in obtaining staff in particular areas, then clearly that is a concern. We will ensure that all the measures that can be taken at a Scottish Government level to improve access to those services is undertaken and will be undertaken working with our local authority partners who have the responsibility for recruitment and retention in those issues.