Chamber and committees

So the reform team is not happening.

To follow on from the convener’s line of questioning, there is a proposal for the chief inspector to have an advisory council. I am interested in hearing your views on how that would work, and on the idea that young people, teachers or whoever should be involved with that. Mr McAra, do you have any thoughts on the advisory council? Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Other unions want to have majority representation on everything, as Mr Adam was pointing out earlier.

Do you have views as to who should be on the advisory council, or are you relaxed about that?

Does Unite have a view?

In principle, you would not ask for a strong union voice on every body; you would just ask for that on the ones that you know about.

It strikes me that we could end up with quite a mixed picture if we had a majority of EIS representatives in some places and no union representatives elsewhere, with Unite somewhere in the middle, but we can be relaxed about that, can we?

If staff are already a bit uneasy, does this just make them feel more uneasy, because they think that things are not going to get any better?

So it is extra to people’s normal work.

That is helpful.