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In areas of social disadvantage—which might be behind Neil Findlay’s point—the issue is not so much the quantity as the quality of the resource. How do we attract the best teachers, the best headteachers and the best principal teachers of subjects and of faculties?
To be honest, the two-stage process that we have talked about is the best practice that operates in some situations just now, and we are looking to formalise that best practice.
It should be about what the need is and how we can best meet that need. That conversation is happening in some places, but it is not happening across the board.
Rather than earmarked funding being a restriction, knowing well in advance what funding we will receive helps for the best planning. So certainty is as important as flexibility?
Donation and transplantation activity has always been delivered on a collaborative basis across the UK as it is in the best interests of patients to ensure that organs have the best match to recipients.