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All volunteers are required to attend a 10-week programme or a preparation course before they are allowed to visit families’ homes. Home visits are crucial, particularly in the early days of someone having a new child, for example.
Feedback from NHS Lothian has been that this has improved things in speeding up the diagnostic process and getting patients into treatment at a much quicker stage.
Tax revenues can be very volatile—they move up and down—and you get some certainty by transferring the revenues and getting the block grant equivalent.
An organisation in my constituency, Parent Action for Safe Play, has developed some fantastic and innovative ways of not only getting children to be more active but getting them involved in helping others.
Evidence form Ofcom’s 2025 survey of Scottish news consumption indicates that broadcast TV remains a highly popular way of accessing news and the BBC is the most popular news provider.
With that in mind, we are implementing a 3 per cent increase in legal aid fees, which will come into effect on 26 April 2019. The panel’s work will be longer term and some changes will require primary legislation.