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Those outreach workers have conservations in which people can express their concerns or views, and they can signpost those people to services or have difficult conversations with them.
As for driving innovation in, say, animal health and welfare and the environment, one of the drivers in that respect—or the race to the top, if I can use Lloyd Austin’s expression—would be our having the devolved capacity to do those things.
When I was a teacher prior to being elected and we were doing rights-respecting schools, the articles in the UNCRC and so on, I could see that children were well able to express—not only orally but through pictures and multisensory play—their knowledge of all the different articles.
I think that the Government has expressed an interest in it, but, for civil servants anyway, this is a massive undertaking and there are many challenges to look at in relation to many different groups.
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has held with the (a) Federation of Small Businesses and (b) Confederation of British Industry about providing safeguards for small to medium-sized enterprises during the credit crunch. Both the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and CBI Scotland are represented on the Scottish Government''s National Econ...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 November 2008
We are currently supporting a pilot campaign with Age Concern Scotland to encourage older people to take up the financial support, including benefits, tax credits, and other awards, such as help with heating costs, to which they are entitled.