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It is difficult to get your children into affordable, good child care.We should recommend that we get a reply as quickly as possible, because we are talking about training kids to be child care experts and nursery nurses. These clubs are an ideal way in which to incorporate that training in one scheme.
He was wrong in a sense—some would say that we were handed several poisoned chalices.We were elected as MSPs on 6 May 1999 and, 26 days later, before any committees were established, the corporate body came into being.
Evidence from colleagues in the university sector suggests that more and more young people who apply for science and technology degree courses at university are quoting that experience as part of what motivated them and saying that it influenced their choice.At the space school dinner that we held earlier this year for recent graduates from each of the past five years, we heard from one young man who had visited...
His work on that matter would be particularly valuable.Following his visit to Eyemouth in my constituency, the minister knows that our local fishery depends on haddock and prawns.
The horrendous ratio of general practitioners to patients that is proposed for out-of-hours care in Lanarkshire—where one GP will cover home visits for 115,000 people—illustrates that point ably.
I shall concentrate on one or two of those issues.There is an organisation in Castlemilk called Community Can Cycle. I know that Robin Harper has visited the project and one or two other members may have heard of it.
However, as you said, the level of care is determined by what is offered in practice. Since being visited this week by a lady about her son, I have been quite concerned about the difference between a stated care plan and unmet respite care.