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It might also help if our report suggested that examples of best practice—I am sure that there are others across the country—should be available on a national database.
When making their decisions, member states' courts all focus on the welfare principle and on the best interests of the child. I am certainly not aware that there have been any great problems.
Does the Executive have any plans to encourage the best people practices, as opposed to tackling the policy and process issues that have been mentioned?
Is not much of what we have heard today the best-case scenario? Might it be helpful for us also to hear the average-case and worst-case scenarios, to give us a balanced view of the impact of the new housing partnerships?
Public Authorities (Best Value) To ask the Scottish Executive what initiatives are being taken to improve cost-effectiveness and promote best value in public authorities.
We feel that committee schedules are sometimes very pushed. Does anyone from the visiting team wish to respond? The observation that we all made is that you and your colleagues are best able to judge the scheduling demands.
That means that those mines are not managed in the best possible manner. The proliferation of sites and the number of opencast applications can lead to developments not going ahead at the identified site, but at one that is less acceptable.