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While there have been discussions regarding new interventions from various funders and agencies to support the ‘new normal’ nothing has been implemented in the last 12 months and uncertainty remains.
We announced a range of actions including that we will, by March 2019, publish a new food and drink five-year export plan and bring forward new measures to promote and market our produce overseas.
It is testament to the efforts of everyone in the sector that we now have near-universal uptake among three and four-year-olds: 99 per cent in the latest published statistics. It is also good news that the number of two-year-olds who are registering for funded ELC is at the highest-ever level.
The Scottish Government has removed dental charges for all patients under 26—that is around 600,000 young Scots—as a first step towards scrapping charges for all in Scotland.