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Under the current arrangements, only children who were born in January or February can defer entry to primary school and be guaranteed an extra year’s nursery provision. There is therefore further discrimination between those who were born between September and December and those who were born in January and February.If there are to be arbitrary cut-off poi...
He was healthy, strong and drug free, and seemed to have an extra dimension in his life. I decided that I wanted what he had, so I opened my eyes and I saw; I opened my ears and I heard.My calling is a direct outcome of my son’s bad choices.
That speaks volumes for the discretionary element of that payment. You talked about the extra funding from the Scottish Government to the Scottish welfare fund.
We owe the third sector a deep debt of gratitude for the work that it carries out in Scotland—not as an optional extra, but as a key component of our welfare state.
Mr Campbell Deane, who is a practising defamation solicitor, said: “by introducing that extra barrier, you would be putting a hurdle in the way of a litigant who may well have a perfectly good right of action.”
For example, the increase in services that was being considered for Monday next week was very small. It was for only about an extra 100 services—a 4 per cent increase.
The approach is in line with other evidence, such as that from the work of the Social Metrics Commission, which spent more than a year considering aspects of poverty measurement and concluded that deducting from available resources the value of the extra-cost disability benefits was “the best available proxy for the extra inescapable costs of disability.”