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I hope that the debate will help to address those issues.We are all familiar with the figures for bedblocking, or delayed discharge. The latest figure is that there are 3,138 delayed discharges.
Brigades will be continuing these visits, which havebeen welcomed by staff and residents, until all care premises have been covered.In some 80% of the visits, recommendations have been made about improvements infire safety.
The letter explains the fact that the new body would not have charitable status under the bill as drafted, but it is the same body that is at issue again, and that concerns me.
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 suggest that we try to condense those into three, leaving a week free to ensure that everybody is able to participate fully in the proposed visits. I hope that everybody has responded to Ian Cowan about the visits.