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However, it is almost impossible to legislate for that requirement. It comes down to having the best information about an individual's or a family's needs, and how those needs can best be met.
If councils are doing their job properly—the SNP Government would like to think that that is enshrined in the concordat—they must provide best value for money. Are you convinced that the policy provides best value for money?
Local authorities will have been doing what they understood to be best value and best practice a number of years ago, and we are still doing best value and best practice.
It is worth mentioning that I saw something from the Taiwan Government recently that suggested that relations between Taiwan and China are probably in their best state for 60 years. We should do what we can in our own little way to encourage that development.