This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
That last point is very important because for long enough—certainly in the early years when I was involved in veterans activity—the emphasis was very much on getting veterans jobs.
I suppose that is what Pride was good for – getting to have a (kinda) political protest by day then getting to let yourself go by evening … Hopefully we'll finally get to go to a Pride together by the end of this year!
There is lots of stuff that we still need to find out about, so we should not simply get on with doing lots of activity. An action plan would be a good start, nevertheless.
The reason that we chose to launch it at that time was that we were seeing an increase in the number of volunteers involved in activity that was not of the best standard, or who were not getting the support that they required.
As I said, there is a hierarchy of things that we want to get in and, to be honest, we have to balance how politically likely we are to get some things in.
However, I am not ready to accept that people living in rural and island communities should have to accept the fact that they are not going to get the same face-to-face service that people might get in the central belt of Scotland.