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To achieve that, the Executive is taking a number of measures, including developing new care standards and setting up a new commission to regulate care services and a council to regulate the social services work force.
We found that encouraging, but when we examined the overall standard that the regulations strove for, we found that they aimed to provide only visitability—in other words, disabled people can visit a new home built to the new standards but they cannot inhabit that new home.
His response is as follows:It is the intention of thethe SPS that all offenders have access to the new Enhanced Casework Service. I referthe member to the answer to question S2W-17568 on 26 July 2005.
Our challenge is to ensure that we build on existing strengths while modernising the education system to face the new challenges. By modernisation, we mean taking account of new thinking, new technology, new knowledge and new skills.
The minister's comment to the committee yesterday that it had sunk to "a new low" was unfortunate, and demonstrated that he was not listening or responding to concerns that had been highlighted.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 September 2010
The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) of the new GMS contract incentivises GPs to record the number of patients diagnosed with asthma and to put in place a system for their ongoing review.
This is the first time since the creation of the Scottish Parliament that a post-election change of government has occurred at Westminster. The new coalition government took office on 11 May and the development of a formal legislative programme has necessarily been conducted under circumstances rather different from those which have become the norm over the...