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It is a point that has been well made before—the estate is open but it is not being accessed. Do you have any insight into why that might be? Has the Government had feedback on that?

I am interested in dignity at work. We no longer carry out the staff survey, so I ask each of the health board representatives to feed back on how they ensure that staff have the ability to feed into the system and on the overall trends in their board. Through your staff governance, how do you monitor that and ensure that changes happen if they need to?

We have already touched a wee bit on community sport in our discussion on leisure centres, and I am interested in some of the questions that we have asked other witnesses about how we try to engage women.

There are three main difficulties in that respect, the first of which is safety and going to and from venues, particularly if there are no local activities for young women. The second is childcare facilities at sports and leisure centres. Have you had any thoughts about that? Thirdly, there is use of the school estate, which has been raised not just recently but in the committee’s previous discussions about sport. It is an important point that we keep coming back to. What work have you done—or do you intend to do—on that issue?

I am particularly interested in discussing women’s and girls’ activity at community level, which witnesses have talked a wee bit about. It is so important that people can exercise and take part in activity in their communities. Do models exist out there that work well, in particular for women and girls? Are there examples either from this country or further afield?

Convener, can I just—

Thanks for that feedback. How do you see the sports governing bodies feeding in to community sports? Is that something that we do well or that we need to do better?

That is helpful. Thank you very much.

Is there anything that is particular to women and girls, or is the issue more general? Do some socioeconomic factors specifically affect women and girls?

Gordon Jamieson, is there anything that you would like to add?

That is helpful—thank you.