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I have concluded that the option that provides the best way forward for social work inspection is establishing an executive agency. That follows the model that is in operation for Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education.
There is more of a need for greater co-ordination between local authority departments. I had the strange view that, following the reorganisation to single-tier local authorities, co-ordination between education and community education would take place.
We have yet to hear a coherent argument from the Executive on why that model should be followed. The Health and Community Care Committee is of the opinion that the model should be revisited and that there should be some correlation to existing administrative boundaries.Without doubt, fees have been the most contentious issue.
In general, the fèis is a model initiative for community arts, and an example followed by similar festivals in other tongues, such as the Gordon Gaitherin—now the Gaitherin—in Aberdeenshire, and by festivals in other parts of Scotland and the world.
I welcome that shift and I hope that it will be followed through. However, does John McAllion not realise that profits produce tax, which produces the social spending that he so wishes?
There is dual accountability at the moment: health boards have to account for the money that they are voted and local authorities have to account for the money that they are given by health. There is a chain. I wish to follow up a couple of points that others have made, one of which is the link between national strategic goals for mental health—what we woul...
We need a more effective business gateway system—one that does more than simply offer advice when businesses are starting up. We need gateways to follow through with long-term, on-going advice.
We must work on the system and the resources that are behind it. The police do not follow up cases because they do not have enough resources to do so; instead, they pass cases on to social workers because that is easy.