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There are some good projects. I recently visited West Lothian College's get ready for work project, which gives people individual support to get employment and which receives funding.
For example, if the race-hate figures are rising, they will get high news coverage, but it is difficult to getnews coverage on the fact that community relations are improving.
Perhaps we need it more, in order to ensure that there are appropriate levels of understanding. We must get to grips with the matter. Local government is changing—access is going to be a big issue and people in local government will have new roles.
It is not a matter of saying that a call will get to the top of the queue, but the call handler will—correctly—place an emergency call in the hands of the 999 service.
All of a sudden, under the new crofting counties agricultural grants scheme, people cannot get a CCAGS grant to replace a rusty fence with a new one.All those things are going on; it is not just a matter of legislation, or the lack of it.
Someone who waits 20 minutes for the bus and has a half-hour bus journey can see their family for 20 minutes before they start panicking about getting back home quickly. We believe that giving people 20 minutes of time to get out does not amount to giving them portable oxygen.