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I appreciate the issues that rural communities face and I have visited some of those communities to discuss those, as has Fergus Ewing, who has been very vociferous with the UK Government about the difficulties that are faced by rural areas as a result of some UK Government plans.
They will ask hard questions, they will want to develop their own view of the world, they will want to visit galleries and they will see the world differently.
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.
Because of the President of Malawi’s visit and address to the Parliament this morning, we are a bit restricted for time; we have only an hour for this part of the meeting.
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.
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.