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A difficult issue arises, as Andy O'Neill pointed out, when the sanction straddles an electoral period so a councillor may come in with a new mandate. COSLA suggests that the sanction would have to carry over from the old mandate to the new mandate.
It is also why we chose 15 days or more as the threshold for the new combined structure. We want the new structure to apply to the maximum possible number of offenders.
I am interested in the idea of the children's champion going out to visit schools. Can you see that it might be difficult for one person to go to all the schools in Scotland?
That would be an excellent way of introducing languages to the skills sector. Absolutely. New people coming into the economy bring with them a whole range of new connections and networks, which might also be sources of new markets or new investment.