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However, interventions should generally be brief. The Labour budget delivers extra funding for our public services, which the SNP has made clear that it opposes.
Last year, there was an output of 725 extra pupil support assistants because of additionality from the Government to support additional staff in the system.
Those sound like natural connections, and for many people they are, but we know that others are excluded or face extra difficulties engaging with their communities without extra help.
As Ross Greer has said, the Scottish Government has already delivered one of the most progressive income tax systems in the UK while, importantly, raising extra revenue to invest in public services and Scotland’s economy.
That funding goes direct to schools to provide support as teachers think best to give young people the extra help that they need with their mental health and their schoolwork.
Aberdeen Linking Lives is a befriending service aimed at adults who find themselves requiring some extra friendship and support, which is provided through weekly home visits or telephone calls.