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To ask the Scottish Government, further to its commitment in its response to the Equalities and Human Rights Committee report, Hidden Lives: New Beginnings, by what date it will publish its anti-destitution strategy.
The SQA has given teachers a longer period to formulate those judgments in order to enable the assessment process to come to a conclusion so that certification can be issued on 4 August—the date on which it was always designed to take place.
I can see that some form of regulation or sanction might get boards that have not taken the issue seriously to date to take it more seriously. What that would look like is open to discussion.
I hope that we guard against the notion that we can chip away at rights and replace them at a future date. At least some of us think that it is naive to assume that the UK will replace the 1998 act with something that is equally good or better.
Providers were not involved in the decisions about the amount of resource that would be allocated, and we were not involved in the setting of dates for implementation, so, at this point, we are struggling to get over the bar.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason its draft social security charter has not been published, and by what date it will be. The draft social security charter was laid for Parliamentary approval on 10 January 2019.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 September 2016