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Reflecting on the visit, Committee Convener, Finlay Carson MSP, said;
“Meeting with people and groups living and working in the national park has provided us with a deeper understanding of the issues and concerns local people have about how this Bill might impact them and their day-to-day working lives.
The Scottish Government explains that “the Bill creates a framework for the NCS but leaves space for more decisions to be made at later stages through co-design with those who have lived experience of the social care system, and flexibility for the service to develop and evolve over time”2Scottish Parliament. (2022).
It highlighted:
We know that certain groups such as lone parents, families with three or more children or people with disabilities face higher living costs and are more likely to live in poverty, yet bank arrestments have no protections or mitigations for those groups, so they are disproportionately affected by that ...
The choice of alternative places to live is thus severely limited. The highland clearances from the 18th and 19th century come to mind where sheep were more important than people.
The Committee received 285 of these campaign emails.
Living Street Scotland campaign email (106KB pdf)
The Committee were also sent emails as part of a campaign by Guide Dogs Scotland on the Bill.
Committee reports
Date published:
12 November 2018
Is that a decent wage? We know that the real living wage is independently set by the Living Wage Foundation and sets out the minimum that a person needs to sustain themselves and their family.