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I appreciate that there is a real incentive to save money if you know that you will get to keep it and spend it elsewhere in your portfolio, instead of it being pinched by someone else.I am almost done. We suggested in our pre-budget scrutiny report that“the Scottish Government undertakes a review of the extent to which the level of social security assistan...
At the same time, Fraser Sutherland from the Humanist Society Scotland said: “the bill documentation and pre-bill consultation clearly show that the Government does not fully understand what is happening.”
We have interventions that stem from playroom sessions for pre-fives, after school clubs for primary age children and young people and focused one-to-one interventions for young people on the edge of care, who might need intensive support to remain at home.
I appreciate that you might need to come back to me on this, but do you have statistics to hand on how many such warnings for possession were given pre and post that announcement and positioning?
Delayed discharges are up by 12 per cent on last year and there have been almost half a million fewer operations than there were in the pre-pandemic period. Consultant vacancies are up by more than 11 per cent in a year, and nursing vacancies remain stubbornly high.
The authority has focused very much on its own responsibilities in relation to conduct when it has been discussing issues with Lady Elish Angiolini or in the pre-bill consultation and before the committee.
You are right—there has to be a balance. The pre-application consultation process came in a number of years ago, and I think that it is really valued and important.
In our experience, respite services have not gone back to pre-pandemic levels. In your written evidence, you speak about how, when a young person goes to a facility, they have a social network there.
The vision and strategic thinking for ferry services and ferry-dependent communities is a key part of that, and builds on the pre-consultation paper on the long-term plan for vessels and ports, which was produced in December 2022.