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The update also provided further detail on the Institute of Health Visiting’s Multi-Agency Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Champions training programme which is targeted specifically towards Health Visitors and Midwives.
The second point is that we know from New York, Vienna, Paris and Amsterdam that some of the big global corporations will take every opportunity to challenge licensing, new schemes and new systems.
We are committed to meeting our 2030 child poverty targets. The 2025-26 Scottish budget prioritises action to eradicate child poverty, not only through our social security system but through much wider investment—for example, in breakfast clubs, employability support and free bus travel.
The quality improvement framework will support that. New staff, recruited by the Care Inspectorate to take up roles in this new area, will be upskilled in delivering in the child contact services environment and will have an understanding of domestic abuse and its impacts.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether the First Minister has visited any care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic to listen to the views of residents, and, if so, (a) where and (b) when these visits took place.
Members indicated agreement.New Petitions New PetitionsUniversal Free School Meals (PE1926) Universal Free School Meals (PE1926) Item 4 is consideration of two new petitions.
Scotland now produces more electricity from wind turbines than a number of other countries do. Last year, we planted 26 million trees. I have visited a very productive sawmill in Aboyne.
Motions agreed to, That the Parliament agrees the following parliamentary recess dates under Rule 2.3.1: 26 June to 29 August 2021 (inclusive), 9 to 24 October 2021 (inclusive), 24 December 2021 to 9 January 2022 (inclusive).