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Witnesses to the Committee also put forward alternative arrangements to those set out in the Bill, including local authority representative bodies who suggested that the existing structure could take on new powers and a new national care service could sit within existing structures.
Free debt advice providers said that, while there has been additional funding over the pandemic, it was not enough to recruit new debt advisers to help to meet the rise in demand.
Scotland goes on to note that 'we feel the redress process could reveal new insights for a survivor about what was or was not 'abuse' - and therefore who should be held accountable', observing that 'if non-financial redress is given which results in accountability for experiences of abuse sitting with an organisation, individual or the state, this may lead ...