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A quarter of four and five-year-olds from the most deprived areas are at risk of being overweight compared with around 18 per cent of children of that age from the least deprived areas.
Some children are reaching school age two years’ behind in their development compared with their peers. This is an opportunity to finally tackle the stubborn attainment gap before it even starts to open.
It reflects the fact that people feel that, even though our budget is relatively small compared to that of other international development partners, Scotland’s input is still welcome.
It also committed to undertake a programme of fact-finding visits around the Bill including a further visit to various organisations and locations in Leith later this month.
The Impact of Brexit on Devolution, paragraph 178As the CEEAC Committee report explains:
When the Scottish Parliament was established in 1999, UK Ministers’ powers to make secondary legislation in devolved areas were transferred to Scottish Ministers with only a few exceptions. A key exception was the power to make s...