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The next meeting of the SPCB was scheduled for Thursday 3 September 2020 although additional meetings may be arranged in the interim should the need arise.
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It is the Parliament that will decide whether further rules should be included in any of the “may” or “must” categories, whether those presently in the “may” category should move to the “must” category and whether rules should be added about what regulations must not include.
The view was expressed that the Hague convention would be a better regime to use because of that. There may not just be downsides to using the Hague convention—there may be some positives.
In my inbox, I have correspondence from people who are very angry, saying, “I am on a below-average wage and I am paying the higher-rate tax.” These are people who may just have read a Daily Mail headline or a political advert on Facebook.
The social worker tries to work out the best result within the budget, and the advocate says, “Well, this may not be possible, but this is what the young person really wants.”
We have to work harder through our employability funding and services to support workers from an older generation in particular who may have come from other sectors where their jobs may not be secure.