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I acknowledge Daniela Sime’s comment that that has come from leadership identifying the issue. Without pre-empting the report, I saw a number of effective interventions, such as resilience training and restorative attachment, which are a new lexicon for a lot of teachers.
In addition, we are working with SDS to consider whether there is a need for further pre-apprenticeship programmes at SCQF levels 4 and 5 to cater for a broader range of young people who might not be at the level for entry into foundation apprenticeships.
Also, a number of people have been given a restriction of liberty order assessment although the pre-sentence report has revealed details of a dysfunctional family set-up, which is perhaps bound to create a difficulty.
We want to tackle air quality to protect people’s health and we know that the most vulnerable people here are those who are older, those who have pre-existing health conditions, and those who are young.
That is already taking shape through the commitments that have been made to local delivery, face-to-face pre-claims advice and the elimination of jargon in correspondence.
To echo Jim McColl’s point—maybe this is a question for him as well—when we talk about Bank of Scotland and RBS support pre-2008, we are not just talking about hard cash.
It makes provision for instruments to be subject to the affirmative procedure in a relatively limited number of areas, where it might be expected to be used. The objection is that it pre-empts the question of the level of scrutiny to which instruments should be subject and therefore there ought to be some sort of sifting mechanism.
One could make the claim that the social security system in its pre-1999 state, before anything at all was devolved, had a role only in preventing and eradicating poverty.