Meeting of the Parliament

Meeting date: Thursday, October 31, 2013

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Decision Time

There are three questions to be put as a result of today’s business. The first question is, that amendment S4M-08099.1, in the name of Liz Smith, which seeks to amend motion S4M-08099, in the name of Aileen Campbell, on the play strategy action plan, be agreed to.

Amendment agreed to.

The next question is, that motion S4M-8099, in the name of Aileen Campbell, on the play strategy action plan, as amended, be agreed to.

Motion, as amended, agreed to,

That the Parliament welcomes the action plan, Play Strategy for Scotland: Our Vision, which sets out specific actions, timescales and responsibilities for delivering support for play; agrees that play helps to ensure that children have the best possible start in life and are ready to succeed and that it can make them successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors and responsible citizens; further agrees that play is absolutely vital to a child’s wellbeing, that it contributes to the development of physical, cognitive, emotional and social skills and is an important tool in tackling poverty and health inequalities; believes that it is therefore vital that all children and young people should have the opportunity to play every day; supports the collaborative multiagency approach to improving the life chances of all children as the right way forward, and congratulates the work of the play sector in helping to improve support for play but recognises the concerns being expressed by KIDS and Capability Scotland that there should be additional focus on the needs of disabled children so that they 'have the same play opportunities as their non-disabled friends’.

The next question is, that motion S4M-08118, in the name of Joe FitzPatrick, on committee membership, be agreed to.

Motion agreed to,

That the Parliament agrees that Cara Hilton be appointed to replace Jayne Baxter as a member of the Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee.

That concludes decision time.

Meeting closed at 16:42.