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There is a line in "Little Big Man" when the Indian chief goes up into the hills to die but then walks back down. When somebody asks him what happened, he says, "Some days the magic works; some days it doesn't."
Subsection (3) of the new section that amendment 331 will insert makes it clear that steps must be taken to identify a place of safety that is not a police station and to transfer the child to it as soon as is reasonably practicable.Ken Macintosh’s amendments 217 and 218 appear to have a similar objective to my amendment 331.
If we are serious about the widening access agenda, we must be serious about supporting colleges, because they are already at the forefront of tackling social exclusion—26 per cent of teaching is for students from Scotland's most deprived areas; 13 per cent of students are disabled; and more than half of students are women.
That raises an additional problem, because councils, which provide the supported accommodation and the schemes, can now transfer money from non-core funding to core funding when the latter is under extreme pressure, as it is at the moment.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 December 2008
I do not wish to repeat what the eloquent Mr Finnie has just said, but I agree that we should not be prescriptive about the levels of fines; that is a basic principle.However, I want to put on the record the fact that the policy memorandum says of proxy purchasing that"A child who starts smoking at 14 or younger is 5 times more likely to die of lung cancer ...
A stark and obvious inequality is that if a person has a heart attack in a remote and rural area, their access to life-saving services is limited compared with that of a person in an urban area. A person might survive or die, depending on where they live. I sometimes think that there is an attitude that someone who chooses to live in a rural area must accep...