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The individual was arrested through the European arrest warrant system within five hours of the issue of the arrest warrant, but also—importantly—by direct contact between the Scottish and Polish authorities under the European judicial network.
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Date answered:
31 October 2018
£49,961.00 Youthlink Scotland Online. Development of the website through focus groups, promotion of the materials and use, training of youth workers and teachers and hosting of live events
People are using that as a new opportunity to go online and buy electronic goods. Again, the temptation to do that makes achieving our goals more difficult.
As you say, businesses in those areas want to promote themselves, and it is amazing how much buying is now done online—especially as we approach Christmas, a lot of people are going online.
I thought that the cabinet secretary would be a bit more exercised about the fact that we are on the verge of teachers going on strike and schools being shut at the end of January because of this Government’s failure to deliver 3,500 extra teachers and cut teacher contact time by 90 minutes. What response does she have for members and for teachers out there...
My question follows on from the previous question. I have been contacted by numerous charities in my region that will have to cease providing vital preventative care for individuals in the Lothians due to the IJB cuts.
(S6O-04348) Local authorities are accountable to the public who elect them and have the financial freedom to operate independently. I am in contact with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities’ spokesperson for community wellbeing, Councillor Maureen Chalmers, whom I met last month.
Yes, those interventions punish, but they also succeed in reintegrating and rehabilitating prisoners and those who come into contact with the justice service. We know that people are concerned about reoffending rates, but when we look at the rates for short custodial sentences and the rates for community justice, we see that community justice has better out...