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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.
Such problems can create serious long-term exclusion with a lifetime of costs for both the individual and society.I am not convinced that a code of guidance would take care of the matter.
What time scale is envisaged for the consultation process prior to the publication of the code of practice? I will have to ask one of my officials about that.
The commissioner is required to report to the Standards and Public Appointments Committee the facts of any investigation and his conclusions on a possible breach of the code of conduct. It is for the committee to decide whether to accept the commissioner's recommendations.
Guidance might come along later this year in the form of a voluntary code, but it would be no bad thing if ministers were to tell councils what they think the current provision is and to reinforce the fact that the House of Lords ruling will be binding under Scots law.
In the past, the deterrent against crimes against humanity has been weak. Other codes of practice and international understanding have allowed for selective international justice.
Practitioners have spent a lot of time trying to gather data from A and E but, because there is not an ICD code—under the international classification of diseases—A and E does not know how to categorise an aesthetic complication.