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It is just one of the reports from independent living in Scotland’s “Solutions Series”, which is an initiative on pop-up think-tanks that bring people, including stakeholders and policymakers, together to discuss the solutions to specific barriers to independent living.
My hope is that creative Scotland will ensure that creative personnel can live and work in Scotland. I hope that it will lead to an increase in opportunity.
I may have picked up Gillian Smith’s comment wrongly, but I think that she said at one stage that we should “park cultural sensitivities”. I have lived in Asia, too. We in the west are used to our type of society, in which we talk about things—especially anything to do with the sexual realm—much more openly.
The only NHS settlement round where a Scottish living wage level had been set but not applied, therefore, was 1 April 2010 when the living wage was £7.00 per hour and the lowest available rate in NHSScotland was £6.98 per hour.
He said SCTS was—
...very cognisant of the fact that behind the numbers are people—victims, witnesses and accused people—whose lives have, in essence, been put on hold.
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure that third sector workers receive the living wage. The Scottish Government fully supports the Living Wage Campaign and recognise the real difference the living wage can make to the people of Scotland.