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S6W-40231 Stephen Kerr: To ask the Scottish Government what the estimated annual running cost of the National Social Work Agency is for 2025-26, and for each of the next three years.
Understandably, they want to give those people comfort and confidence, but they will be worried about the new cost of caring. It is nothing short of a “Visit your gran” tax.
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Date answered:
2 November 2020
We are continuing to monitor the feedback from families and health professionals and the latest research available. Both indicate very high levels of satisfaction with the Box and its contents.
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Colleges Scotland has also highlighted the need for more support in this area in order to meet demand.
On 26 January 2021, £30 million additional funding was announced4Scottish Government. (2021, January 26).
The Scottish Government continues to model the latest Covid-19 trends, and the results are published online in the “Coronavirus (COVID-19): modelling the epidemic” reports.
The deadline for lodging oral questions to the SPCB is 4.30 pm on Wednesday 26 February. Questions will be randomly selected and published in the Business Bulletin on Friday 28 February.
Criminal Justice Committee Pre-budget scrutiny 2025-26 Written submission by the Procurators Fiscal Section of FDA The Procurators Fiscal Section of FDA welcomes the opportunity to provide evidence to the Justice Committee in respect of its scrutiny of the 2025-26 draft budget for COPFS.
As previously noted, if a ban was put in place it remains unlikely that any travelling circus that uses wild animals would visit Scotland as such visits have been rare in recent years.