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As you can imagine, one of the very good pieces of news that I have heard in the past few days was about the meeting of the regional cancer networks that was held last Friday to look at the latest audit data, which show that all the key clinical standards are now being met.
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.
I am not saying that enforcement is not necessary, but that my interest has moved towards treatment and rehabilitation.The statistics in Scotland are frightening. The latest figure from Professor Neil McKegney is that there are 55,000 addicts.