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Police Scotland and the Government recognise the impact of Covid-19 on the wellbeing of officers and staff and quickly set up a wellbeing hub to co-ordinate information on support services that the workforce can access.
Through the enterprise and skills strategic board, we are working to ensure that the planning and commissioning of our annual £2 billion investment in skills is better co-ordinated and more responsive. We continue to support businesses to take advantage of new technologies and to advance their ability to integrate with data and digital.
Last night, I received a copy of a report by the Human Rights Consortium Scotland. The consortium’s co-ordinator, Mhairi Snowden, has said: “This new report says that individuals’ rights must be safeguarded in the wake of the vote to leave the European Union ...
The process was planned and implemented in co- ordination with the SPS, Social Work Scotland, COSLA, Association of Local Authority Chief Housing Officers, NHS Boards, third sector organisations, and other partners.
Our intention is that the approach should be supportive and collaborative, led by the Planning Performance Co-ordinator whose role is to monitor and advise authorities on improvements.
The co-ordinators are considering what they can provide at the local level to increase uptake of the vaccination among the various groups so that we can continue to increase the overall rate of uptake for those who are eligible for the vaccination programme.
Scotland’s new Government must bring an end to the era of limitless unco-ordinated development. Until then, rural Scotland will keep pushing back, and rightly so.
For instance, we heard that amending existing legislation, particularly section 40 of the Regulatory Reform Act (Scotland) 2014, might be a more co-ordinated and obvious route to having a specific offence of ecocide.