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We really want to highlight the first of the three points. Yes. We should include extra information so that the lead committee knows exactly what we are talking about.
We have to ensure that the system rewards institutions that make the extra investment and provision to cater for their disabled students' needs in ways that widen access for those students—the system must not penalise institutions for making that provision—and we have to ensure that de facto claims for disabled allowance are reduced.
We have now had those two sessions, so to do something different would mean revisiting a previous agreement. If we wanted to have extra evidence sessions with specific witnesses I assume that we would want to discuss names; the convention is to do that in private.
In informal discussions with my local authority, it was suggested that it will probably be necessary to appoint an extra member of staff and to provide support, certainly to set up the scheme, and probably to keep it going.
Most of us were heavily involved around the stakeholder table and we all pushed for other measures to be put in place at airports. An announcement that an extra couple of dogs will help with inspections will not make a great deal of difference.
There is a lack of clarity about whether the Government is willing to include anything that would place an extra emphasis on public bodies sorting out their own pay gaps and about whether that could be extended through the contracts that those bodies make with other organisations to carry out public functions.
In 2003-04, the Scottish Children's Reporter Administration received additional funds to help it to recruit extra staff to work on front-line services and the administration of children's hearings.
I like the idea of treatment in community hospitals, because it would be friendly and in the community, but how many extra bodies would we need to deliver support to such units, which are scattered around Scotland?