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They are obliged to have regard to a code of practice developed under the auspices of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), called the Prudential Code for Capital Finance in councils.
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Date answered:
11 December 2007
The Model Contract forSpecial Advisers, incorporating the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers andthe Civil Service Code, is publicly available in the Scottish ParliamentInformation Centre (Bib. number 44234).
The main reason for those waiting lists was that availability status codes were applied to the procedure. The fact that the Government is abolishing availability status codes will mean that all patients will now be treated within the maximum waiting time guarantees.
I am really pleased that the Scottish Government has put money into coderdojo programmes and into trying to ensure that coding is accessible. This coming Saturday, there is a coderdojo at Glasgow science centre, and I am taking my son to it.
For example, people should be fed on the basis of need, not on any other criteria, and there should be a code of conduct to ensure that people are treated decently.
I have a final question. The journalistic code emphasises the importance of a right to reply, but Amnesty’s research found that only 6 per cent of the articles about Gypsy Travellers presented a community voice.
We should have consistency where it is required, particularly in bureaucratic provisions, but we should not stifle innovation by enforcing a prescriptive way of delivering or designing programmes that must be followed across the country. Are you looking for a common code of practice? Will the approach be to provide guidance rather than guidelines?