Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee

1. Consideration of continued petitions: The Committee will consider the following continued petitions— PE1887: Create an Unborn Victims of Violence Act; PE1900: Access to prescribed medication for detainees in police custody; PE1979: Establish an independent inquiry and an independent national whistleblowing officer to investigate concerns about the alleged mishandling of child safeguarding enquiries by public bodies; PE2028: Extend the concessionary bus travel scheme to include people seeking asylum in Scotland; PE2085: Introduce a statutory definition of residency for Fatal Accident Inquiries into the deaths of Scots abroad; PE2113: Provide support to RAAC-affected communities; PE2118: Review and restructure Scotland’s flood risk management approach and operations; PE2130: Make it illegal to remove all the hair from a horse’s tail; PE2161: Extend the time period for complaints through the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman for neurodivergent people to two years; PE2165: Raise awareness of and provide educational resources and training for Functional Neurological Disorder (FND); PE2170: Abolish the General Teaching Council for Scotland; PE2173: Ban ultra-processed foods in school meals; PE2178: Introduce mandatory latex labelling for food products sold in Scotland; PE2185: Introduce stronger safeguards around the use of digital material in court proceedings; PE2188: Extend the National Entitlement Card scheme to include ferry travel for people aged 60 and over; PE2193: Address Dangerous Delays in Paediatric Cancer Diagnostics; and PE2196: Address early sexual offending in Scotland.