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We are also benefiting from, and spreading the implementation of, telehealth and telecare, which remove some of the need for home visits. I have seen that working effectively in NHS Ayrshire and Arran, which I pick only as an example.
We also look at the outliers—the bottom 10 offices and the top 10—and have things called go look see visits, when we send people in from outside to work out what is going on and to establish whether there are other issues.
That becomes more difficult when the problems are severe and when children might need to be on supervision orders and to have regular visits from social workers and other agencies.
Given that it is a key issue for the netsmen, which has been raised with the committee both during your visits and in evidence, I expect that ministers will want to look at it.
I pay particular tribute to the Lothian Centre for Inclusive Living, which I visited recently and which has supported people to take control of their lives and live independently.
We have undertaken the best part of 50 or 60 individual subject visits in the course of May and June to corroborate the findings of the audit, which touched on individual departments and subject areas.
Our manifesto said that we do not favour taking rights away from existing tenants, but that we have to take a critical look at how particular local solutions are working.