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A third sector organisation might be the best organisation to deliver the service—the most cost effective, the most inclusive and the most capable of providing the best outcomes—but it will not be on a level playing field for the procurement or commissioning process for that work.
We should focus on the outcome and, if we support it, ask ourselves what the best way of delivering it is. Is the review group’s proposed solution the best way?
We are intent on solving some of the problems you have just outlined—perennial problems that have dogged this debate for a very long time and which have led to older people not getting the best care that they can get.I want to solve those problems.
Option three would provide the highest level of efficiency for the lowest cost and would therefore be in the best interests of providing the best possible crime detection service to Scotland’s police forces and the wider public at optimum cost.