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Paragraph 22 on page 24 of your submission suggests that through concentrating on priorities and strategic themes, methods of allocating new funding will be considered. Does that mean that the theme groups will primarily consider new funding, or will they address the main funding?
We are working with the Executive and the police on new methods of assessment. I presume that the "early warning signs" that you talk about are signs of reoffending.
We also made a commitment to monitor the implementation of care in the community. Given that the new policy was started only on 1 July last year, it would have been petulant to start jumping up and down at the time, because anything so new was obviously going to have teething problems.
Some 130 important European meetings were held in Finland during the six months of the presidency.For me, the most fascinating aspect is Finland's policies on innovation. We visited TEKES, which is the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation.
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.
When the Tories were in power, they built four schools a year, which is quite impressive. However, Labour is building a new school every week, and soon a new school will be built every five days.