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In its submission to the committee, Aberlour Child Care Trust stated: “Families we support with children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder are particularly struggling with lockdown and the consequential impact on behaviour, as a result of disruption to routines and increased family stress.”
Internal markets involve the constant managing of relations, facing new challenges and updating the solutions that we thought that we had found five or 10 years ago, but which are no longer appropriate because science and technology and consumer behaviours have changed. We need to think about internal markets in that dynamic, institutional way.
Fourthly, planning permission is a one-off decision and would not address the various concerns that have been expressed in relation to the management of short-term letting, such as health and safety and antisocial behaviour issues. Andy Wightman has written to me jointly with Alex Cole-Hamilton, Ruth Davidson and Kezia Dugdale, calling for the extension of ...
Another possible explanation of how the mechanism might work is that a large number of children from more disadvantaged backgrounds may lead to behaviour or create an atmosphere at a school that affects the attainment of other students and, as a result, the way in which they make subject choices.
I can follow up on that and share that information with you, but it will help us understand the right kind of measures that we need, because having the wrong measures can set the wrong behaviour. The right measures will help us track our performance on inclusive growth as we move forward.
We all know that that view is not only deeply offensive, but wholly inaccurate. However, it plays into the wider public discourse on the debate, so I welcome the element of the motion that discusses addressing stigma, as a number of members have done.
A few comments that appeared in the papers and on social media brought to light the uninformed, outdated and blatantly offensive opinions that some individuals hold on the subject.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Falkirk Council provided any reasons for withdrawing support for an indoor football centre at Westfield Stadium and, if so, what these reasons were.