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If that happens, there should be public funding to back it up.Four and a half years into devolution, we are still puzzled about why the code of best practice will not arrive until December 2004.
They are elected to represent the views of their communities and they have a responsibility to respond to those views. MSPs have to observe a code of conduct every day of our lives.
I must therefore say on the record that the councillor whom you mention might simply have been complying with the code of conduct. If the councillor was acting within the code, he was acting absolutely appropriately.
Indeed, I have said the same thing by pointing out that we are seeking to improve education and will issue guidance and codes by which SNH can implement that guidance.
Several pieces of legislation and parts of codes of practice all come together in that regard: the Standards in Scotland's Schools etc Act 2000, which contains a presumption of mainstream education; the recent code of practice on special educational needs; and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.