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We must start to work, through SIPs, to respond at community level.Over the past three years, I have been involved in a major expansion of pre-school care and child care in the Highlands.
The Treasury puts headings on various columns for education, pre-nursery schooling, social work, housing benefit and so on and the local authority gets the sum of those columns as a single line budget.
I assume that the other two witnesses would confirm Mr Duffy's comments that the SCRO check should be additional to the existing checks—you would not be able to relax the checks that you do already, so there would not be a saving that you could offset against the new cost. I have figures from the Scottish Pre-School Play Association. If it has 60,000 volunt...
Do we know whether the McLean committee's remit extends to post-conviction treatment of prisoners, or is it looking into the pre-conviction scenario only? I am not positive.
We recommend that barrier-free design should become a permanent feature of pre-qualification and post-qualification training.We have engaged with the Scottish Executive's draft policy on architecture for Scotland and we encourage this committee to monitor development of that policy.
The latest statistics show that 96 per cent of three-year-olds and 99 per cent of four-year-olds take up pre-school education places.We are making progress on the curriculum.
However, when the parents sought continuation of the nursery place for a further year to allow the child's pre-school education to continue, it was denied and the child was left in limbo for that year, between pre-school education and school.