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It is critical that a person making allegations of abuse, for example, can give their best account in support of them and that appropriate measures are available to support them in doing that.
When it comes to spend, not just in island areas but in our rural economy as a whole, we cannot look at it purely on the basis of best value and economic value in its simplest sense.
To summarise your answer, “We’ll do our best, but I can’t promise you.” Our aim is to work within those timescales, but I am realistic about the range of pressures that exist within the system.
11:30 We are assured of the commitment of the organisation and its leadership to put the best support in place. We have not yet received adequate assurance that the wellbeing activities that are currently in place are having the impact that we would expect.
The only way to ensure that you look honestly at what progress is needed, so that you can then measure it, is by basing the approach on the lived experience of people who are suffering a denial of human rights or an inadequacy of human rights protection. They are best placed to tell us what progress we are making with our best intentions.
As you can imagine, the whole thing feels cluttered and complex to our communities, which are looking for the best-quality outcomes and the best-quality public services they can get.
The reason why it varies is that regrettably, sometimes, we lose permanent colleagues and the best short-term solution is to backfill with a contractor while we see whether we can get a permanent person back in.