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Third Sector involvement
Organisations, including Hospice UK and Marie Curie Scotland, emphasised the importance of third sector involvement in service design and delivery.
The analogy about kite flying reminded me of an experience that I had at school, where we had a fantastic teacher who used all the songs from “Mary Poppins” to teach us creative language.
Will its approach be that of the health care environment inspectorate to the whole range of its responsibilities or is another mechanism proposed? Malcolm Chisholm and Mary Scanlon are right to express concerns about the increase in self-assessment.
That was the major reason for local government in Scotland resisting league tables arising out of best value.It seems to me that a way must be found of generalising best practice more effectively than we have done so far. I agree with Mary Mulligan on that. Let us be honest with one another.
With a small extension, that pool would have been capable of providing the necessary 50m for training that Mary Scanlon talked about. With relatively simple adaptations or extensions to some swimming pools, we could have many more 50m pools throughout Scotland.
We want to move towards a system of prevention and early intervention and away from the crisis interventions that mark the current system.We can and must do better on outcomes for looked-after children and care leavers; I acknowledge what Mary Mulligan said in that regard: she was right to highlight the important role of children's advocacy.
As Willie Coffey said, we must seek to tackle the three Ds of drink, drugs and deprivation. Contrary to what Mary Mulligan suggested, we were happy to support a great deal of the legislation that came from the previous Administration.
We are not starting from zero on food and health—there is the good work of hungry for success, which Sarah Boyack and others mentioned. As Mary Scanlon said, the review of the Scottish diet action plan shows that we are making progress in some areas but not in others.