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We have worked with COSLA to jointly supplement that transfer by an extra £40 million per annum to deal with the reductions of 10 per cent applied by the UK Government.
The state recognises the importance of the extra-legal, pre-political and what you might call anthropological nature of marriage, and the state protects it in law.
Surely that takes us to a position where we start to ask whether there is a way to bring in extra resources. Of course, there is; the third sector is excellent at doing that.
We are also reducing the number of long-stay beds in our residential homes, and with our preventative spending approach we have created extra care beds for people to get short-term intensive rehabilitation and support and then return home.