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The GTCS’s failure to intervene based on their own teacher exit surveys is contributing to the exodus of talented teachers from the profession. Their inaction is unacceptable. This level of interconnectedness is unhealthy.
At stage 1, a clear line was drawn—commercial activity can be restricted, but social or political activity should not be, even if commercial brands are involved.
I will come back to Mr Whittle on the active healthy lives funding and the sport funding, so that he gets greater clarity on our intention and how we are providing support to sporting organisations and those who provide the phenomenal opportunities that exist across the country.
Our public sector members who are trying to get planning consents say that they are happy to pay a higher fee if they get a better service, and they see ring fencing as a way to help protect the budget and get the funding reinvested.
I have heard that, for parents of young children, the ability to get support at home instead of having to organise their infant in order to get out the door for it might be the difference between their getting help and not getting help....
As I have said, the majority of people who buy drugs in Scotland today do not know what they are getting, and the majority are getting something other than they think they are getting when they buy drugs.
They are just trying to pay their bills day by day and get through. How do you get your message across, given this feeling of crisis and the day-to-day chaos of trying to survive?
We think that we have a solution that works, but we have had our problems in getting there. That is pretty much behind us, as it is for most other people.