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The schedule to the bill extends a range of rights to children with additional support needs, including the rights to ask a local authority to determine whether they have additional support needs, to require a co-ordinated support plan and to request an assessment.
Local government has a key role to play in co-ordination of that as part of a wider network of regional economic strategies that need to be put in place across Scotland.
The pupils also prepared posters on the dangers to children of second-hand smoke in vehicles, and the Scottish Government has proposed an amendment to the bill’s commencement date, to co-ordinate it with an education campaign.
The DWP will lead the PACE response team, but the other agencies will play in and bring expertise to the table. That tends to be co-ordinated on a pan-local authority basis in large-scale closures such as this one.
The original purpose of allowing corporate bodies to be formed was to enable them to co-ordinate or further community planning, not to substantially deliver services themselves.
If that system was brought back in, we would just have to do a bit more work with Police Scotland to ensure that our efforts were co-ordinated collaboratively and effectively.