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In addition to teaching Deaf children BSL, Deaf Links also highlighted increased interest in learning BSL from hearing children and their parents in addition to the standard language options on offer in Scottish schools, something it attributed to greater visibility of the language. BDA Scotland also expressed concern that no reference to Scotland’s 1+2 app...
The Scottish Information Commissioner expressed strong reservations about relocation, emphasising the risk of losing key personnel and the operational disruption such a move could entail.
This would be possible under the terms of the Bill. Police Scotland expressed concern that they would not have the resources to support such a rapid expansion.
When I was before the committee at the tail end of last year, I expressed great concern about the level of business that is likely to come, particularly into the High Court, and about the Crown’s projections set against the capacity that the system—of which SCTS is just one part—will have to deal with.viOfficial Report, Criminal Justice Committee, 29 Januar...
Respondents to the Committee's calls for views repeatedly expressed disappointment that the Bill focuses on structures, rather than policy change, and that the Bill does not offer a more comprehensive package of reform.
The policy note outlines that some concerns were expressed by respondents to the consultation regarding how the public would be made aware of whether egg products had been subject to a housing order.
Alignment with the UK carbon budgets
Another factor potentially bearing on timing and sequencing of processes over the coming months relates to whether it is important for Scottish budgets to align with budgets set in the rest of the UK. The majority of those who expressed a view in our pre-legislative call for views recommended alignment with UK carbon bu...
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The Committee heard broad support for, and agree with, entity regulation and the potential benefits this will bring for both regulators and consumers. However, it notes the concerns expressed by the Law Society in relation to the waiver provisions provided in the Bill in relation to the ABS scheme.
The Committee say they are concerned that funding pressures mean the prison services’ throughcare system, which is vital to any efforts to prepare prisoners for release and reduce the likelihood of reoffending, cannot be kept in operation.
Alarm is also expressed that debates on how many people we send to prison and the need for community based altern...