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On the final point that you raised, how will you manage to achieve that? How do you co-ordinate the spending in the islands programme with that wider spending?
Another option is to defer commencement of the bill as long as is necessary to ensure co-ordination with the section 104 order. Again, that is not desirable, but it demonstrates that a gap in the law would not be created.
A small number of organisations have put in a note of interest on the proposed four-day working week. The Government is co-ordinating views on that, and my CEO is keen on getting involved.
We need to be really thoughtful about that and about the range of professionals involved, because it is not just about the ELC setting itself but the wider support that comes from across the public sector and how we support each family. Having that co-ordination is crucial. I will make a quick plea that these places are delivered and deliverable within priv...
Through our lived-experience advisory panel, we involve asylum seekers and victims of modern slavery in developing and improving our services. We have a community liaison co-ordinator and we have regional managers for both of our services.
Will you consider the possibility of the NHS providing direct support to ensure that things are more co-ordinated and seamless in the future? As I said, we will continue to monitor the situation.
Tricky decisions will have to be made, but we should be looking across a raft of capabilities and asking how we bake this into an excellent NHS and public health system for Scotland. A lot of this is about co-ordination and connectivity rather than huge new investment.
In that way, with applicants’ permission, councils could co-ordinate waiting lists and encourage incorporation, perhaps looking at particular sites where authorities own land.
The same clinicians and care co-ordinators are being asked to provide data rather than doing what they want to do, which is to get people on to waiting lists, into appointments and moving forward so that they are not just waiting to be told when their hip operation will be.