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It took evidence over four meetings and visited Alloa and Irvine. The Committee's report made a number of recommendations, including increasing local procurement spend by setting targets in each local authority action plan.
Notes of fact-finding visits and engagement activity
On 7 January 2025, the Committee undertook informal engagement with members of The Assembly, a group comprising of people with a learning disability and autistic people, about the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill.
The Committee held a formal evidence session on 2 December 2021 to examine the 2020-21 annual report and accounts of Social Security Scotland. We also made 2 visits to the Social Security Scotland Headquarters in Dundee.
Following a call for evidence, the Committee agreed to investigate the issues raised in more detail with the Marine Planning Partnerships, and undertook visits to Orkney, Shetland and Clyde in November 2019.
They have continued to provide exceptional care to pregnant women and new mothers not just in hospital, but in the community, visiting new families in their homes, carrying out newborn check-ups and providing breastfeeding support at the height of the pandemic.
The most recently published statistics for the Scottish Cervical Screening Programme reported that, of all eligible women, 70.7% took up the invitation to be screened in the previous 3.5 years up to 31 March 2014.
The issue could arise on home fire safety visits or other safety visits but, in the Borders, the fire service is part of the multi-agency public protection arrangements and the relationships to deal with community safety and domestic violence.