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There is a pay agreement for 2024-25, but that was reached only a few months ago, so we are already behind in pay uplift for staff and 2025-26 has not been agreed. SRUC sits outside the new National Joint Negotiating Committee agreement, which is a UK-wide pay body that agrees pay.
The Regulations do not require the introduction of new digital systems, and existing digital capability can support facilitation of visiting without creating additional unfunded obligations for local authorities or care providers.
They showed me kindness and strength of character when, often, they faced life-changing illnesses. I describe it as the best job ever because I was lucky enough to go into a field that was about society’s role in maximising the best life possible.
Will you at least give us a commitment that the response from the Government will be made on a sitting day—at the very latest, the response would be made on 26 September—and that you would make a statement to Parliament on the outcome of your decision?
I think that around 6,000 homes had been delivered in rural Scotland previously. The good news is that over the first year of the operation of the new target, 1,600 new homes have been delivered in rural Scotland.