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Some councils are changing their care-at-home teams into reablement teams, which are a different proposition from somebody just doing a home visit and helping with washing and dressing.
It is perhaps about time that the committee considered a visit to Aarhus—an understated university town in the middle of Denmark has no business arousing so much controversy.It would perhaps be helpful to the committee if I made clear at the outset my intention not to press amendment 260.
The next-biggest area is Scotland, where we have had a relationship with Scottish Enterprise and Scottish Screen. That is beginning to kick in now, so we have a significant portfolio of activity.The two other legs of our digital commissioning are in education, which is almost all digital rather than television, and what we call cross-platform, which is wher...
Clearly, it is not only about divestments—the examination of those three areas will in many cases, but not always, mean that structural divestments will be made, but often behavioural commitments will also be necessary to address our concerns.We are getting to know companies very well. We are screening their balance sheets and business plans and assessing w...
If electronic counting is to be used in future local government elections, the committee considered that there should be agreed national standards on the display of spoiled ballot papers on screens at the count.I have referred to equalities issues a number of times during my speech and the matter was a central theme of the committee's inquiry.
In addition, during the process of surveying possible sites and pipe routes, members of the project team and our land agents visited some 75 landowners, occupiers and tenants.
Six feet of snow was not uncommon when I visited. When you think of that country and its population and position, you realise that it is the most innovative economy in the world.
The force’s website, which I have visited, provides incredibly wide-ranging information on domestic abuse.That information is not limited to men’s violence against women; there is now a helpline for male victims.