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MSPs and their staff perform a valuable public service, which supplements and, in some cases, plugs gaps in the provision of advice and support services.
We would welcome the views of Social Work Scotland about whether the current drafting of section 23(4)(a)(i) is sufficiently robust to allow them to take action to protect the child when they receive such a report from Police Scotland.”iiiWritten submission, Police Scotland
Conclusion on the use of circumstances of use of the "place of safety" provision
We are unclear whether the Bill’s provisions are designed to plug...
The bill will place in law key parts of the getting it right for every child approach and will promote stable and permanent home environments for children, for example by establishing new rights for kinship carers.
For instance, the new Government in Berlin expects that the Conference on the Future of Europe will lead to a Verfassungskonvent, as we Germans call it, which would be a new convention on how to reform the existing treaties of the European Union.
Let us not repeat the mistakes of the 1950s, when emerging dangers around smoking first arose. Let us act now. 13:26 I join others in thanking Gillian Mackay for her leadership on the issue inside and outside of Parliament.