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An Action Plan for Improving Oral Health and Modernising NHS Dental Services in Scotland includes a number of short, medium and long-term solutions to improving dental workforce. S2W-19899
The Scottish Executive has made available £77.5 million, over the next two years, through the changing children's services fund, to try to improve the integration of children's services and to provide those services on a better basis.
The problem is that we are waiting for the funding to be released. We want the committee to recommend strongly to the steering committee that it should provide the funding immediately.
We accept that there should be a time limit, but there is an issue about flexibility, given the time taken to deal with complaints within the health service.
He asked who would receive the surplus of the pension scheme, and stated:"NOT the workforce … NOT the … pension fund, either.But the Government.It makes you wonder just who privatisation is for."
We recognise the need for people to have better access to financial services and we are therefore funding the development of a savings and loans scheme for people in hostels who are at present excluded.
According to the response, the flexibility offered by guidance was considered to be preferable, because in different local authority areas, different criteria might apply and different projects might be operating.The response also indicates that there is an intention to amend the provision to make it clear that ministers are required to issue guidance.
It has been suggested that the provisions are unduly prescriptive, that there should be more flexibility, and that those provisions should be moved over to guidance.