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Agency staff who work in care homes on longer term contracts should be tested in the same way as substantive staff are tested in the care home, every 7 days, regardless of whether there has been a confirmed Covid-19 case in the care home or not.
We recognise and value the important role of peer support and the KCASS website provides a list of different local groups to help encourage caregivers to make those connections.
The DPRR Committee also raised concerns about the power in Clause 7 to prevent, remedy or mitigate “any other deficiency in retained EU law".5Clause 7(1)(b).
If they do not radically change them, more officers will die. That is inevitable. I have some suggestions for follow-up work in addition to what has been proposed.
There is a small but steady increase in parents requesting Year 7 places (often pupils aged 18-20 years) to alleviate the need to move their child into adult services.
I commend the NFUS Kintyre branch for its forthcoming Kintyre cheese, yes please campaign, which will launch on 7 April. Clear labelling is vital, too, so that our consumers know that they are buying dairy products that are made and processed in Scotland.
There is work going on to understand whether infections were acquired in hospital or were acquired in the community; that includes patients who were diagnosed in hospital, whether or not any patient sadly went on to die, and infections in staff who work in hospitals and have perhaps been working with Covid patients.
The report showed that the character of Dundee’s drugs problem is different from that in the rest of Scotland, in that more young people are tragically dying there, poly drug use is far more common, and the people who die are more likely to have lived in poverty.