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Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will consider its approach to the scrutiny of the Bill at Stage 1. 7. Regulatory alignment with EU law: The Committee will consider the third report on the EU law tracker. 8.
Does the minister accept that the Scottish Government’s 7 per cent real-terms cut to the Scottish welfare fund since 2013 means that councils have fewer resources?
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23 September 2025
If someone has been told that they are the right fit and their circumstances mean that residential rehab is the right approach for them but they are on a waiting list for months or years, do not get into residential rehab and then overdose— as in the example that I gave—or die through further complications, their family is, at the moment, entitled to take a...
On the issue of providing drugs to someone who intended to die by suicide, Lord Carloway said (paragraph 30):
Nevertheless, the voluntary ingestion of a drug will normally break the causal chain.
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those from the most deprived areas were much more likely to be admitted to hospital with serious illness from COVID-19
the death rate from the virus in the most deprived areas was double that of the rate in the least deprived areas
people of South Asian background were around twice as likely to die from COVID-19 compared to white people.
He explained that people “thought that it meant that they would not be given medical treatment and that they would be left to die if they got the virus”. He was also worried that “administrative staff have been calling older people with dementia, who have agreed to something on the phone”.iiiEqualities and Human Rights Committee, 28 May 2020, Official Repor...
So all of the things associated with localism and a 20 minute neighbourhood. - Partnership and collaboration – public, community and third sectors have a huge role to play, not only in supporting the right housing but creating the right 7 conditions for town centre living.