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In this day and age, when people want value for money, it is not best practice to have wardens with narrow remits who are not asked to act as extra eyes and ears.
I note that the report states:"However, decisions on the best use of resources are currently being made on limited evidence – there is little information … about the activity, cost and effectiveness of services for people with long-term conditions."
You heard the question that I asked the previous witnesses about best practice in Europe. Can you identify an example of best practice in which you see rail infrastructure as being top of the tree?
We fund the Scottish officer in COSLA to look at best practice across the board for the Scottish welfare fund to try to get the consistency and the sharing of best practice that we are looking for.
I am also interested in cost efficiency, which is a bit of a generic term. Are we looking at best value or added value? Have you decoupled added value from best value?
Local councils know their areas and their people best, which is why I will support the bill at stage 1 this evening. 15:36 I thank my colleague Andy Wightman for his hard work on the bill.