Chamber and committees

I will ask Gemma Fay to talk about football.

I would probably disagree when it comes to Fife Council. The best example that I can give is that, when people are off for summer holidays for seven weeks, all the community halls are shut.

Yes.

We have talked about stress and burnout, but what are you putting in place for the wellbeing of your staff? I do not mean anything related to profession and careers, but what is in place for the wellbeing of your staff so that they continue—

How would you get women to participate in sports, especially when there is good weather?

It happens with a lot of clubs. I play walking football, and we have had a long-term booking at a time that is accessible to us all. Any other groups, especially female groups, that come in now are getting times late at night—the 9 o’clock or 10 o’clock bookings.

Good morning, everybody.

How can community sports facilities be improved to allow female participation? For example, on booking times, a lot of community facilities have long-term bookings from males, and as female participation in sports such as football has increased, women have found it very difficult to get into community facilities. How can we improve that?

I am thinking especially of local authority community centres. In many cases, they are shut at weekends and those groups find it difficult to get into facilities like that to participate.

I was wondering whether the patient safety commissioner role would evolve into having such powers.

Could social media be used better by Government organisations to promote positive role models and support for young women? I am thinking about TikTok, which is where a lot of young people get their role models. We only need to think about an influencer and what they managed to do with a certain juice product. I was interested to see on the BBC last night the agency that is the top influencer on women in Scotland. It has a huge following but none of it is to do with sport; it is all to do with clothes and image. Is there a place for social media that could really impact on young people?