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Many parents of children with ASN have contacted me to express concerns about the practicalities of home learning and the considerable stress that that is causing them.
The aim is to create a route which will be accessible to and enjoyed by many local people and visitors, not just “end to enders” but also by day trippers.
Local government has been assured by me that it will receive 26 per cent of the capital departmental expenditure limit that is available to the Government over all of the next four years but that it will not come in a uniform, flat line—it will be lower in 2016-17 and it will be much higher in the later years of the spending review.
In the words of the First Minister, the aim should be a bill that is“a worthy successor to Donald Dewar’s original”—Official Report, 26 May 2011; c 67. and of which we, on behalf of the people of Scotland, can say, “I like that”.
After our report was published, I commented in the local press and—I will take some credit for this—South Lanarkshire Council is now looking to take on an empty homes officer.