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The public service reform agenda is about shifting those resources to the front line and, in doing so, making a significant difference to the lives of the people of Scotland and positively impacting service delivery.
Equally, however, the policies themselves need to be reviewed from time to time: nothing can be set in stone, because we live in a changing and dynamic world.
I want to ask the very last question, which is on an issue that has received a wee bit of media coverage recently: live facial recognition technology. Has there been any proposal that work on that be taken forward?
The council tax freeze was deployed to support pressed households at a time of cost of living pressures—which continue, but which were particularly acute.
What would it mean in terms of remuneration for staff who suddenly found their lives restricted in a way that the lives of other public sector workers are not?
Those are the areas in which local authorities are critical because we are bringing together infrastructure with the way that people live their lives, and we have to do that at an appropriate local level.
They are very focused on what they can do to make them a better place to live and bring up their children and to ensure that people have decent housing and can stay there.