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Officials are working with the Department for Work and Pensions to consider how best to implement these changes in Scotland and Discretionary Housing Payments will continue to be available for those affected until implementation is complete.
Do you accept that there may be times when contact is not in the child’s best interests? Is that not a reason for maintaining the position that the courts should do what is in the child’s best interests and not what is in the best interests of whichever parent does not have co...
A third sector organisation might be the best organisation to deliver the service—the most cost effective, the most inclusive and the most capable of providing the best outcomes—but it will not be on a level playing field for the procurement or commissioning process for that work.
Do you feel that managers, rather than the clinicians, know best about what the budget should be and what would be in the best interests of the patient?
We are intent on solving some of the problems you have just outlined—perennial problems that have dogged this debate for a very long time and which have led to older people not getting the best care that they can get.I want to solve those problems.