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We have outcome agreements with COSLA for some of the objectives in that announcement—for example, members will remember the 22,000 extra weeks of short breaks and the provision for intensive home care and rapid response teams.The care development group report included the bold intention to hand out all money for older people on the basis of outcome agreeme...
We are trying to avoid that difficulty by removing unnecessary stages from the process.West Edinburgh is a good example, because it is an area of rapid change, as Jim Mackinnon described.
When people talk about a consortium or a cartel, we are aware of potential accusations. We have heard a lot about rapid changes because of the introduction of new technology.
In all, we will provide some £280 million from the assigned budget in support of our environmental policies.That has taken some time, convener, but it was a rapid summary of where we intend to spend.
Neither has it succeeded in modernising conditions of service. We are going through a period of rapid educational change, and we require flexible conditions of service allowing authorities to deliver the education service that the community expects; yet, in the past 10 years, the SJNC has not made a single important change to conditions of service.Teaching—...
We have had considerable experience in dealing with new telecommunications apparatus. There has been a rapid expansion, owing to the evolution of the industry and because Vodafone and Cellnet have entered into an agreement with Highlands and Islands Enterprise.
That is why we will not only modernise the high courts, but work reforms and modernisation through the whole system. Improvements in liaison between the procurators fiscal and the police are needed at local level.
There is a wide range of activities, so it will be difficult to get a grip on the diffuse problems, but in many cases, a little bit of help, such as liaison with schools or a small amount of money, would be effective.
Those who rely on the provision of services in hospitals often depend on the Ambulance Service to get them there. We will ensure that close liaison will continue and, where necessary, that the liaison will improve.Schools (Sport) Schools (Sport) To ask the Scottish Executive what recent action it has taken to promot...