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It is also extremely disappointing that the new Minister for Transport denies the problem in his amendment and has so far ignored my invitation to visit Renfrewshire to hear directly from passengers who have been affected.
They do desk-based work, such as making telephone calls, writing letters and sending text messages. They never go out to visit taxpayers or claimants, and they do not take enforcement action through the courts, so their role is limited.
Children’s social care services—especially if we start bringing in things including health visiting and early years and childcare—are in a complex landscape.
We should acknowledge those in different parts of community care who are working extremely hard to ensure that their patients remain well. District nurses are doing home visits, changing bandages and monitoring people’s conditions; school nurses are dealing with a vast range of issues across multiple schools; and health visitors are providing advice and gui...
I welcome the minister’s statement that she has instructed Angus Campbell from the ferries community board to visit, take forward the next steps and engage with communities.
We receive a request and a certificate from the yard and we have to sign that off as the milestone having been met. To do that, do you visit the works? We have between three and six people on site permanently.
If we were to only use “protections”, I wonder whether people would say, “You’re just putting a spin on it, because the reality is that my life is being restricted. I cannot go to visit my friends in London, for example.”
Frances is a home care worker who receives the 45p mileage rate, and she told me that it covers less and less of the fuel that she needs to visit patients in their homes, never mind the wear and tear on home care workers’ vehicles.
They are school and family development workers who themselves are backfilling the decimation of social work provision. I recently visited a primary school in Dundee where an outstanding headteacher told me that she could not countenance losing those workers.