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The legislation in England and Wales is new. I think that part of it has still to be enacted and the main part was commenced in 2014, so we have a long way to go until we see how effective it is and how it plays out.
From my perspective, it is very valuable that the new Police Scotland national child abuse investigation unit will provide a national resource with a range of specialist skills and expertise.
I am not in a position to say whether they work well or not. There are various regimes. The new United Kingdom regime was set up with the particular purpose of dealing with an identified problem and particular issues that were on the BBC news all the time.
There is a national retrofit programme and people will be going out to areas across Scotland, under the new fuel poverty programme, to retrofit energy efficiency measures into our houses.
There are also concerns about the impact of welfare reform. The new system is expected to take £500 million out of the pockets of disabled people in Scotland every year from 2013.
More ALEOs have been set up in recent years as a result of consideration being given to new ways of delivering services, but quite a number of them have been wound up by councils and brought in-house.