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It is obvious that Glasgow will benefit from the Commonwealth games, but how do we get people to come out from Glasgow and visit the rest of the country, including areas that are furthest from the urban centres?
Many people simply walk home from the city centre because they cannot get a taxi. It is quite frightening for a parent to think that their child or young person is walking quite a long distance to get home because they simply cannot get home any other way.
Over many years, our business start-up rate has lagged behind that of the United Kingdom as a whole, although I note that the latest statistics show that the number of new business incorporations is at an all-time high.
Instead, the SPSO proactively supports and provides training to public bodies on handling complaints to ensure “they get it right first time”, thereby reducing complaints to the SPSO over time.
We have taken the period from February 2011—that is about when the first of the coalition Government’s welfare reforms began to be implemented—through to November 2014. That was the latest data that we could get when we knocked up the report in June and July.
One thing that happened was that a very small number of parents applied late to get a nursery place in a PVI setting, and they were unable to get their first-choice setting.