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Job evaluation scores, and benchmarking against similar weighted roles typically support pay setting arrangements. Many public sector staff earning over £100,000 are very highly qualified and experienced.
Job evaluation scores, and benchmarking against similar weighted roles typically support pay setting arrangements. Many public sector staff earning over £100,000 are very highly qualified and experienced.
We have also invested directly in our communities mental health and wellbeing fund, which I have spoken about in the chamber many times before. Many solutions for poor mental health sit outside the health portfolio.
I believe that the committee has had evidence from a number of people that there are too many people out there in Scotland right now who are seeking help and are not getting it.
However, he added that the evaluation responses had also indicated that there had been some negative consequences as a result of achieving this aim, saying that “Some concerns were expressed regarding the logistics of engaging specialist teams and the risks of de-skilling local firefighters because of a reliance on specialists from out with local areas”.14P...
Much of that is related to our housing market, which is the economic security for many families. However, for many people on low incomes, getting on the property ladder is a pipe dream.
In my Eastwood constituency in East Renfrewshire, many taxi drivers have withdrawn from the industry, and I am sure that that pattern has been repeated in many other places.