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If people are not certain what their funding is going to be, an awful lot of their attention will go on marginal activities, including getting the money out of the door as fast as possible, so that there is no money to be taken away later in the budget year.
Many economically inactive people are students, retired or are looking after family and home, however having a long-term illness or disability accounts for 30% of those aged 16 to 64 who are economically inactive.
It is disappointing that the spring budget held none of those policies and that, therefore, those children will remain in poverty due to Westminster’s inactivity.
Does the First Minister share my view that history will record with shame how the Tories’ inaction and indifference has caused people in one of the richest countries in the world to face that dire standard of living?
It seems that we have a solid body of evidence and clear examples of why the curriculum for excellence does not quite get it—it could have got it, but it does not quite get it.