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Colin Smyth: To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to concerns raised by Age Scotland that the country faces a crisis in the care sector, with some service users being left without food, water and essential medicines.
Monica Lennon: To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Scottish Children's Services Coalition warning that Scotland faces a "lost generation" of children with additional support needs.
Currently Aberdeen City and Moray HSCPs are continuing to fund the small service but no agreement has been made about developing a service with staffing to meet the demand or integration with ADHD services.
Wild Salmon Threats The committee’s demand to halt farm siting near wild salmon migratory routes aligns with the Salmon Interactions Working Group’s unimplemented 2020 recommendations.
If the MATHLR or LHLR gets too high then local authority will struggle to deliver affordable and sustainable housing and developers will likely pick off most profitable greenfield sites from the overly generous allocations and ignore the harder to develop, more sustainable, sites.
The Cabinet Secretary for Finance announced to the Scottish Parliament on 4 December that the Scottish Government intends to mitigate the impact of the two- child cap in Universal Credit as far as possible within our devolved powers.
Joint CPG event on 22/06/2022 The CGP participated in a joint event with four other CPGs, namely those on Fair Trade, Credit Unions, Social Enterprise and Cooperatives.
The UK East-West Council has already had its inaugural meeting (26 March 2024) in London. It was chaired by the Secretary of State for Levelling Up and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations and included Northern Ireland Office ministers as well as the First and deputy First Minister for Northern Ireland, and the NI Minister for the Economy and Communitie...
Section 14 defines a health board in terms of section 2(1)(a) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, under which the area health boards were constituted for the purpose of exercising functions relating to the health service and making arrangements for the provision of healthcare services.
This approach is helpful in describing high-level expectations, some of main the factors that will affect the fiscal trajectory and how these may translate into funding and spending totals. 5 26. A key aspect of the approach is that it enables an assessment of the potential gap between funding and spending at the central scenario and both extremes across th...