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The other gaps—in areas other than capacity—are in what theorists would call social capital. We can help children to acquire new skills and attitudes, but they need new opportunities and new people, sometimes, to support them and their families.
It has flip-flopped around from one policy to another, but its latest position, which we heard this morning from Fiona Hyslop, is that grants would replace loans.
As a response to those duties, I have drafted a new section of the document—given the fact that that the legislation is relatively new, that section does not form part of the version that members were sent.
As a youth worker, for about eight or nine months during that unpleasant period, I went to bed every night thinking, "What kind of a news day was that for us?" That was not what I was supposed to be doing.