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Those issues are very relevant to the wider debate on looked-after children, and we shall return to them.The biggest sin of omission in the bill, however, is the failure to give a voice to the children who are involved in the adoption process.
I would like to make a point, if I may. For my sins, I have been involved in the development of the home condition report in England and Wales for the past three and a half years.
While the SNP has consistently argued for Cubie plus, this bill delivers Cubie minus.The audience of students within and without this chamber will not be fooled by Labour's rhetoric or the clapometer of the eunuch partner in the one-party coalition; neither will it lightly forgive new Labour or agricultural Labour for the sins of its political fathers. A tu...
Between 2014-15 and 2024-25, health spending increased by 24.9% in real terms8Johnston, L., Milligan, B., Miller, N., Allan, M., Dorian, C., & Calder, C. (2025, December 4).
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The rule of law – i.e. the constitutional principle that all persons, including the state, should be accountable to the law.7James, L...
It was estimated that in 2015 illegal waste activity cost over £600 million in England2Noel, L. (2018). Independent review into serious and organised crime in the waste sector.
Because of the shortage of time, I will leave Bill Aitken to deal with our concept of sin bins for persistently anti-social tenants, although I must say that the task force's plans to remove the category of intentionally homeless could go some way towards achieving the same end.
I recall, as a young girl growing up in Edinburgh, that showing off was probably the cardinal sin. We seem to believe that God will bring us down if we think too highly of ourselves.