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Sometimes, national ministries are accompanied by officials from foreign ministries and sometimes officials from autonomous regions participate in teams of officials in which the national authority is also represented.
Professor Munn referred earlier to the level of exclusions and said that they were 26 per 1,000 for children with ASD as opposed to 15 per 1,000 in the background population.
Those who criticise the Government should be absolutely sure of their record and wait until the facts come out on 26 May—facts are chiels that winna ding.
“What I am trying to say is that it could be done but it is not what we would see as the best way of doing it.”—Official Report, Justice Committee, 8 December 2015; c 35.
I welcome Michael Matheson, Cabinet Secretary for Justice, along with officials from the police division of the Scottish Government, Ian Kernohan and Graeme Waugh.
Indeed, the Equal Opportunities Committee heard last year from one survivor who said that the issue “is not a matter of numbers but a matter of need”—Official Report, Equal Opportunities Committee, 30 January 2014; c 1803.
From the briefings that have been provided, the official status of children in need seems to be a key issue for those who have deep experience of the processes.
It was a short, sharp inquiry, which considered the work on benchmarking that local government officials who are members of the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers in Scotland carried out for almost three years.