VISITS BY SCOTTISH SCHOOLS TO AUSCHWITZ

leave out from `House' to end and add `supports helping all young people understand the Holocaust so that it will never be forgotten; commends the proposed funding by the Scottish Government to support the establishment of a Holocaust Memorial Museum in Scotland which will be of immense value to the educational experience for all Scottish people; notes that under new curriculum in Scotland there will be many opportunities to discuss the Holocaust, including a new emphasis on the rights and responsibilities of individuals and nations, through the forthcoming Religious and Moral Education outcomes which will foster the development of values, beliefs and attitudes, and through Social Studies which include the study of history; further notes that the previous Labour/Liberal Democrat Executive did not provide funding to schools for visits to Auschwitz-Birkenau and that the specific funding announcement by the Department for Children, Schools and Familes in February to pay for two pupils from schools in England to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau came from the department's general budget and therefore it did not generate additional funding for Scotland at that time; welcomes the fact that the SNP government has provided record funding and freed up local authority budgets so that they have the freedom to consider the contribution that study opportunities such as visits to Auschwitz might contribute to meeting agreed national outcomes, and make them available to pupils within their funding allocations; and further welcomes the fact that it continues discussions with the Holocaust Educational Trust on how to provide participation in the project for school students and teachers across Scotland, given the shared commitment to this aspect of teaching and learning'.