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Although this is a European disaster, and many of our members do not normally work in Europe, the experience that they have over many years of dealing with refugees around the world will stand them in good stead.
Let me come at the issue from a slightly different angle. Of the 800 new workers, how many are in place now and how many will be recruited in the next financial year?
It is not just that there are too many children living in poverty in Scotland—even one is too many—but that as many as one in four children is living in poverty.