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Mr Gray possibly knows where I am going to go. Concerns have been expressed about Aberdeen City Council’s decision to establish an arm’s-length company—a local authority trading company—for the delivery of some of its social care services.
I draw Mr Smith’s attention to section 1(3), which says that a person“must be provided with any assistance that is reasonably required to enable the person”to express their views and“make an informed choice”.Is that not advocacy?
We should make sure that our education and support systems mean that children grow up with a sense of their rights and understand what they are, how to articulate them and how to express what is going on in their lives.
The timescale is such that the screen unit is to be operational from April, when the new appointments will need to be in place. The concerns that have been expressed about governance and decision making are quite worrying.
Over the years, colleagues who work at a local level have expressed a concern that they might be perceived as being biased towards one party or another if they concentrate on an area in which one party is thought to be stronger than the others.
Permitted premises
The Committee acknowledges concerns expressed by some of those businesses currently providing non-surgical procedures about the Scottish Government's proposed approach to regulation of these procedures.