This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
As a teacher for more than 30 years, I taught many demographics in many areas of multiple deprivation, and a lot of what you are saying about seeing the child and the whole family has resonated with me.
The provision of childcare in rural areas also can be the determinant as to whether women can enter paid work, and how many hours they can work. In this way, childcare provision traps many women and their children in poverty.
Our land is a finite resource which meets many of our needs including biodiversity, food, clean air, carbon sequestration, health and wellbeing, leisure, housing and energy production.
S6W-00768 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Government how many people have (a) de- registered from and (b) deleted the NHS Scotland Protect Scotland app in each month since its launch.
S6W-00768 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Government how many people have (a) de- registered from and (b) deleted the NHS Scotland Protect Scotland app in each month since its launch.
In the Parliament, the debates on health typically focus on inputs versus outcomes, with a lot of emphasis on how many people are being employed to carry out work or how many more appointments there will be, and whether the outcomes are changing as a result of that.
Our concern, which is in part an answer to the previous question, is that there are some, but not many, areas in Scotland where there are far too many short-term lets and the number needs to be reduced.
They should be trained in proactive strategies. We hear a lot about de-escalation. As Bruce Adamson said, by the time you resort to de-escalation, you have lost it.
The proportional reduction of councillors on local boards to a minority position undermines the legitimate democratic mandate and accountability held by Scottish local government and de-values the role of locally elected members and Local Government as an equal sphere of democracy in Scotland.