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We are trying to establish a process, in a similar spirit to what Nicola Sturgeon said about the process of developing school plans. We want local authorities to be focused on the need to keep under constant review the performance of their schools, and to take action whenever necessary.
They also recognised that they had little or no flexibility for reducing the fee increase, given the need to allow both BT and ministers to recover their subsidy to date and to cover their costs over the rest of the contract.
I am unhappy about such a time being set, when there is nothing in the new subsection that allows the sheriff any flexibility. It might be worth adding a phrase along the lines of "failing that, in circumstances" such as those that are then described.
I will deal with the steps that we are taking in this area.We are grant funding local authorities to help safeguard children by introducing a 20mph speed limit around all schools.
Will the minister confirm that the figure to which he referred constitutes an increase in funding for mediation services in Scotland, which have an important role in protecting the rights of children of divorcing couples?
Without that source of income, many of the landscapes that give recreational users such pleasure and enjoyment and make Scotland so attractive to visitors may be lost through lack of finance to fund essential land management and conservation.
Members have spoken about the factors that contribute to that.The Scottish Executive can take initiatives on, and try to develop, sports medicine and physiotherapy.
the most notoriously difficult developmental year in a child's life has been targeted by politically correct fanatics … This proposal literally creates a nanny state."
They have thrown millions of pounds of health spending into a black hole, because that funding has no focus, no format and no meaningful infrastructure.