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Could the cabinet secretary outline examples of best practice, where local authorities and teachers are using attainment funding to improve literacy and numeracy in our schools?
I remember the debates around this tax policy and how it should be implemented and who should operate it. Modelling was done on how best to do that, and the creation of Revenue Scotland has been vindicated.
However, when a council delivers services through an ALEO, it must demonstrate that that provides best value for its communities, and that the ALEO secures a balance between social, economic and environmental wellbeing in how it operates.
The local people want to show the best of Orkney, but they also want the people who go there to show the best of themselves and to respect the communities that they visit.
Are there any situations for which a civic death would be appropriate and proportionate? That is the best case. The question is how we see the right to vote.
However, I think that we would not have the recommendations if there were not some gaps that we need to consider in order to improve and tighten up the system to ensure that we have the best possible decision making around HDC.