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Social Justice and Social Security Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 6 February 2025
Roz McCall
I want to follow on from Bob Doris’s earlier points.
There are some elderly people, including in my family, who struggle because of the way the world has moved on and things have moved to digital—for example, my mum is not a big fan of doing anything online and gets confused by jargon. Have we made the process of claiming benefits a little bit harder for elderly people?
Is there an argument that we need to look not only at the benefits that are in place and how they stack up but at how we are going about the process? Are we putting in enough support at the right stages to allow people to apply for what they should be applying for? Only 65 per cent of eligible households are receiving pension credit. To me, that is just wrong. Have we got the process right?
Social Justice and Social Security Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 6 February 2025
Roz McCall
That was very helpful, Debbie. Thank you.
Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 5 February 2025
Roz McCall
That is very interesting.
Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 5 February 2025
Roz McCall
That is interesting.
Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 5 February 2025
Roz McCall
Hello, everyone. Thank you for being here.
Colleges have some great links with schools and some fantastic links with small and medium-sized enterprises. I know that there are challenges and positives when it comes to establishing links, but I am interested in how that is going. When I was at Fife College recently, I heard that it could not obtain a single placement for its social care course for a whole year—it simply could not offer that side of the course.
Given that you are building links with SMEs, what has the process been like since the flexible workforce development fund came to an end? Can you give us an idea of how that is going?
Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 5 February 2025
Roz McCall
Thank you very much indeed.
Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 5 February 2025
Roz McCall
Thank you. I have no relevant interests to declare.
Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 5 February 2025
Roz McCall
That was very interesting—thank you.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 28 January 2025
Roz McCall
That is helpful. Thank you.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 28 January 2025
Roz McCall
I go back to the wonderful comments that I made earlier on guidance. Would guidance be helpful?