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The amount of publicity that we are getting in the local press is astonishing. There is a whole new marketplace. As Betsy Reed said, more local authorities will be involved in two or three years' time.
It is too early to say whether the Parliament will have to adopt the sledgehammer approach of passing new primary legislation to take another approach.
When the concordat, the CPP process and the new national performance framework emerged three years ago, it all happened at such a cracking pace that it caught a lot of people unawares.
That introduction has been very useful for me and, I am sure, for the new members of the Parliament in particular.You spoke about a minimum period of 12 months.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 August 1999
A network of 47 Social Inclusion Partnerships is now in place, tackling the problems of exclusion in rural and urban areas across Scotland. Of these, 26 are new Social Inclusion Partnerships, which began their work on 1st April 1999.