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The care commission's report is publicly available on its website. I have read those documents and the recommendations that have been made, and have been advised that the recommendations have been adopted in their entirety, which is a very good result.
It is clear that Parliaments in many countries are discussing the budget review, but it is not clear to what extent national or sub-national Parliaments will make an input to the consultation. None is listed on the DG budget website, although it is said that the regional Parliaments in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg are planning an event with the Governments...
Amendment 35 would allow the High Court to have regard to those recommendations and tariffs when setting the punishment part in respect of prisoners who have transferred from other parts of the United Kingdom.I move amendment 26.
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.
The minister reassured us that the money remained ring fenced for community purposes; however, he will not be surprised to hear that we want to return to the matter. For a kick-off, has the £26 million from the communities portfolio that was transferred to the central unallocated provision last year now been spent?