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We must roll things out across the country and continue our investigations, so I want to focus on the committee's visits programme.As part of its evidence-gathering activities for the inquiry, the committee plans to carry out a programme of visits throughout the country.
There will be a number of strands to the framework, but that suggestion would require a new piece of legislation. Mary Scanlon referred to hidden carers.
The general services that all parents can benefit from are now threadbare. Health visiting is so overstretched and under-manned—or under-personed—that the latest proposal is that health visitors' visits be restricted to high-poverty and high-deprivation areas.
Leaving aside the huge disruption that moving the toll booths will cause, the move will double the debt on the Tay bridge to about £26 million. That will make it difficult for the Tay Road Bridge Joint Board to meet its obligations to pay the debt off by 2016 and will burden the people of Tayside and Fife with tolls for decades to come."