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True to form, the Scottish Government’s response has been to welcome a number of areas of good practice highlighted in the findings while shamefully ignoring the conclusion that “Police officers and staff continue to struggle with out-of-date, inefficient and poorly integrated systems.”
We will listen, we will not be bullied into giving false timescales and deadline dates and we will, within the lifetime of this Parliament, deliver for Scotland a social security system of which everyone in Scotland can be proud.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government whether Disclosure Scotland has set a target date for the completion of all retrospective checks on enhanced disclosure certificates and, if so, what date.
We hoped to allocate the reports to the various political groups before the summer recess, but there was a dispute between the two main groups in the Parliament—the European People’s Party group, which is the centre-right group, and the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament—over the points system, which is the byzantine...
Those requirements enable the adoption register to be brought up to date. The Scottish Government’s intention is that the adoption agency that decides that the person is no longer suitable to be an adoptive parent—which might not be the same as the agency that approved suitability—must implement the requirements of regulation 5(6).
The point was forcefully made by many of you.That concludes item 3. The date of the next meeting is Wednesday 2 November, when we will continue with our scrutiny of the budget.
(S4O-00245) The consultation on the first Scottish social housing charter opened on 1 August this year and it closes on 1 November. To date, we have received 16 responses. East Kilbride housing forum has suggested that a standard probationary period should be built into tenancies to help to prevent antisocial behaviour and protect communities against proble...
I will come back to you in the fullness of time, but it will be before we break up for the recess. Monica, thank you very much for giving evidence to us this morning.