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The Committee was also told of the vital importance of information on people’s lived experience to give more meaning to any data gathered.
The Committee highlights significant variations in policy on reimbursement of patient travel costs, depending where an individual lives and whether or not they are in receipt of benefits.
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20 September 2024
Official Report, 13 June 2024, Col 9 Turning Point Scotland also commented in written evidence that–
We spoke with people we support about what their lives looked like around six months before they became homeless.
The highest proportion of major errors was found in entries where the individual on the register no longer lived at the address. This was 9.7% in Scotland (10% in 2018).
We would need to mirror the provisions in the bill on membership, the balance of employers and employees, and ensuring that the body included lived experience, so I guess that we would still need primary legislation to implement that.
However, the local authorities we heard from told us there were no unaccompanied children living in hotels in Scotland.
Andy Sirel of JustRight Scotland said “There are unaccompanied children in the hotels.
This instrument includes provision to transfer individuals who live in Scotland and receive PIP (which has been administered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on behalf of Scottish Ministers), to instead receive ADP, to be administered by Social Security Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Ministers.
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Children who are formally 'looked after' can live in different arrangements such as5Scottish Government. (2021).
We welcome this instrument, which will be of practical assistance to disabled people living in properties which have common parts and recognise the work that has gone into preparing them.