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While the Committee welcomes this, it urges the Government to speak to people with lived experience to ensure services meet the needs of neurodivergent people.
The lack of expectation that is placed on people with learning disabilities is profound, and that means that they start from way behind in trying to live the lives that they choose.3Scottish Parliament. (2024, May 15).
“The Scottish Government believes that without its actions to date, 28% of children would be living in poverty. Even so, the Government expects to narrowly miss its interim child poverty targets, with modelling predicting that 19% of children will be living in poverty this year.
Nick Hobbs from the Children's Commissioner said that no child should be living in a hotel regardless of legal status or who has responsibility for their care.
The 2007 Act's key aims were to increase the number of potential adopters and improve stability and permanence for children unable to live with their birth families4Scottish Parliment . (2006, March 27).
Yet we are the people who have to live with these decisions. Forever.
The only part of the system that has shown the people who live in these communities the respect they deserve has been the Local Area Planning Committees made up of Council Members.