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That is the key issue.The Government amendment is an act of self-congratulation; if there were a prize for that, the minister would surely be in the top three. However, this is a serious issue.
Colleges are looking at their budgets for 2012-13 and having to focus on the more expensive end of the scale, which is the 16 to 19 age group, since the higher costs of student support are to be found in that age group. That is on top of the real-terms cut of £11 million in student support.
Creating a new nationwide bureaucracy would make no difference to those who require services.The Association of Directors of Social Work, which represents senior social work managers in local authorities, has sounded a note of caution about taking a top-down approach. It states:“We need to provide the very best care that we can for the people in our communi...
One significant proposal for which I have not been able to provide a cost is the hub website, but I have been told that the minister responsible is looking to develop a website to support public appointments.
I understand that Fife Constabulary asked Labour to withdraw the press release from its website but was told, “We don’t take things down from the site.”
A breakdown of those figures by NHS board is available on the ISD Scotland website. What are the possibilities for increasing the number of palliative care specialist nurses and assistant positions, which provide practical support and quality-of-life improvements for end-of-life patients?
(S3O-9642) The Glasgow local biodiversity partnership has made significant progress in implementing its local biodiversity action plan and a report on its progress is available on the Glasgow City Council website. For example, five local nature reserves have been established, ponds and wildflower meadows have been created and grassland management regimes ha...
I ask him, in particular, to study the perverse economic analysis in the EventScotland report, available on the organisation's website, which suggests that gross expenditure and gross outputs are the same.