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Global citizenship is now fully embedded across the curriculum and ensures that our young people are ready to play a full and active part in society - politically, socially, economically, environmentally and culturally. Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS) and partners have provided a range of support materials, resources and continuing professional development opportunities for this work.

The Year of Homecoming in 2009 successfully used Scotland''s history, culture and heritage to enable young people to build a sense of pride in their identity and develop an understanding of Scotland''s place in an increasingly globalised world. Global citizenship is also being encouraged as part of the Commonwealth Games Legacy for Scotland.

The Scottish Government continues its support for the Scottish Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research (SCILT). SCILT provides continuing professional development opportunities for all languages practitioners and works in conjunction with other bodies, such as the Scottish European Education Trust and cultural organisations, to promote European language and culture learning and teaching.

LTS is also promoting a knowledge of Chinese language and culture through the development of the Confucius Classroom Hub programme, of which there are now 10 hubs covering 15 local authorities.

Building the Curriculum 3: A framework for learning and teaching supports curriculum planning at the local level, providing a framework within which schools and their partners have autonomy and responsibility for planning a programme which meets the needs of each learner. It sets out the experiences which contribute to learning and expectations on outcomes for young people, rather than detailed definitions of prescribed hours of study. However, the framework does stress the expectation that young people are entitled to two hours of quality physical education per week.

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This review will help evaluate the implementation of the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008 (Sunbed) Regulations 2009 by local authorities.

In addition to a survey of all Scottish local authorities referred to in that answer, Health Protection Scotland is also undertaking a survey of a cross section of sunbed premises in order to gauge how businesses are complying with the legislation and whether there have been any difficulties with implementing the statutory requirements.

Furthermore, the Scottish Government is in discussion with Cancer Research UK to determine whether they can undertake some additional work with sunbed users, to explore social norms concerning sunbed use, such as whether under 18s have changed their perceptions and/or actions as a result of the regulations.

The survey of local authority enforcement of the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008 (Sunbed) Regulations 2009 includes a question on the number of fines issued to sunbed premises since the regulations came into force on 1 December 2009. The results will be made available by the end of April 2011.

The survey referred to in that answer will seek to establish whether there has been any change to the number of sunbed premises in Scotland since the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008 (Sunbed) Regulations 2009 came into force. The results will be made available by the end of April 2011.