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Mr Fletcher mentioned the housing stock transfers just a moment ago. I have some questions not on any one particular transfer but on transfers in general.
Is it simply guidance that councils can pick and mix from, to coin a phrase?11:30 On all issues, COSLA can issue guidance, but it is down to individual local authorities whether they accept it.
That means that reform must be more than transferring resource to the front line of our public services, and it is about transformation in both the back office and front-line functions.
Back in November, we tragically lost Scotland’s women’s international Siobhan Cattigan, at the age of only 26. That was a terrible loss of someone so young, who was playing at the top of her game.