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The language is beautiful, practical and applicable in many settings. The principle of universality and equalities-based, everyone learning it is woven into the BSL (Scotland) Act 2015.
Nor does this inhibit our desire to work productively with you, and other stakeholders across Scotland, on our many shared goals to make Britain fairer.
We produced a report on how some, we believe many, women will self-exclude, and are already self-excluding, from spaces and services if they are not sure they are really single sex/know that they aren’t.
The current system is failing many children and their families. We suggest that this consideration of extending the legal aid provision is focussed on Section 11 orders of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 relating to parental responsibilities only.
However, if, as I suspect, it is a plan of many policies across many departments, in many ways, it is important to be clear about which department holds which policy and then who is the delivery agent for that policy.
The reality is that Scotland heads the charts on too many of the bad areas. We are the unhealthiest nation in Europe, the most obese nation in Europe, and we have many poor health indicators.
My colleagues have spoken to you about COSLA’s clear position on the national care service. We absolutely support many of the recommendations in the Feeley report and the huge benefit of many of those recommendations.