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Graeme McAlister of the Scottish Childminding Association echoed that and noted some local authorities had commenced capital build projects irrespective of existing capacity in the private and voluntary sector: “If you take away only one statistic from today, please let it be this one: in our 2021 audit and in previous audits, we asked how many local author...
However, the move between being a child at school and an adult participating in economic life, and associated transitions, simply never occur for far too many disabled children and young people.
Those Scottish Government official statistics include breakdowns by many of the groups of interest, including e.g. rurality, additional support needs, socio-economic background, ethnicity and sex.
Daniel Johnson moved S7M-01838.5—As an amendment to motion S7M-01838 in the name of Tom Arthur (Supporting Young People to Participate in the Labour Market), insert at end “; is concerned by figures indicating that as many Tuesday 3 November 2026 1 as one in six young people in Scotland are not in education, work or training; believes that there is a need t...
We also know that hate crimes are not always reported to the police. A 2025 study showed that as many as 48% of people from Black, Asian and visible minority ethnic communities who had experienced 10 discrimination opted not to pursue any course of action.
To ask the Scottish Government how many specialist food and drink retailers producing hampers, parcels and gift sets it has engaged with on its deposit return scheme, broken down by how many have responded to its contacts.
I do not think that we even know how many people in Scotland have long Covid now or how many have any of the conditions that have wiped out—no, that is an exaggeration—or have done a huge amount to damage the economy.