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Is it fair to summarise paragraphs 68 to 71 in the report as saying that the arrangements were at best loose, that they caused real concerns and that they could indeed be unacceptable?
However, as part of informing your decision, the committee should write to the WHO and ask it for current best practice examples. From other Parliaments?
I therefore implore everyone to keep their questions and answers as brief as possible, and I will try my very best to get everyone in. I welcome the minister’s statement.
The Scottish Government believes that the best place for a child to live whenever they need to leave their birth parents is in the wider family, if it is safe and in the child’s best interests to do so.
Given that we are talking about an increase of the best part of 10 per cent in the staff costs budget, can you give us, if not now then in writing, a breakdown of the programme budgets that money has come from?