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Children in Scotland points out that, to date, the number of children who officially receive services and support under the 2004 act has risen modestly, from 5.1 to 5.6 per cent of all students.
I became a member of the European and External Relations Committee on the last sitting day before summer recess in 2008. Having gone off for recess, I ended up having major surgery in the first week back in September, and I was then off for all of September and October.
However, the private sector has been struggling to get back up to pre-recession levels of building. The latest statistics show that things are starting to turn, so it is looking promising.
It is not fair, but it is where we are as we go into a triple-dip recession. I will not go on about who is to blame for that recession; we are there and we have to look at how we operate.
As we reach the last, most difficult part of the climb, we are suddenly hit with two other factors, one of which is the economic situation. Obviously, the recession that we have just gone through led to an increase both in demand for housing and in homelessness.
Frankly, I think that they are wrong.Before I ask Nicol Stephen to come in, will you clarify something for me? George Foulkes mentioned the date of 30 May. That was the date of the television interview.
As I said in my supplementary evidence, you could create a completely different way of administering the whole system around the register, but the prerequisite is to have a good up-to-date map-based register, which we have never had.
I suppose we could have required all authorities to resolve equal pay and single status claims by a certain date, but we did not. I cannot tell local authorities that they have a duty to do that by a certain date if they have not agreed to that.
A strong suggestion has been made that we should, at an early date, take up the matter with the various agencies that are involved and, in particular, with the Scottish Government.