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Huge effort was invested in working with clients to get the online application to a point at which people could readily and easily use it. We have done some sessions with MSPs and constituency staff to try to illustrate to them what the front end of the process looks like.
At cost of living events put on by MSPs and MPs across Scotland, a huge number of older people have come up to me and asked, “My income is just under £10,000.
At cost of living events put on by MSPs and MPs across Scotland, a huge number of older people have come up to me and asked, “My income is just under £10,000.
Ultimately, that is a decision for the local authority. In my time as an MSP, one issue has been about what street furniture starts to look like, especially during the festival, with A-boards and things like that.
We have received apologies from Brian Whittle MSP, and from our convener, Siobhan Brown, who has been unexpectedly detained but might be able to join us in the course of the meeting.
It is a difficult question to answer, in that there is not a single solution. That is why MSPs will see a range of things at the regional and local level that some people will support and others will not.
I have seen it in my own personal experience, and I have seen it as a constituency MSP. I have a fantastic community link worker in Pollok, and she has just taken over from an equally fantastic community link worker at the health centre in Pollok.