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In an academic study to compare the earnings of the worst off and best off, Dorling found that the UK is the fourth most unequal nation among the world’s richest countries.
Housing could be part of the preventative approach that GIRFEC takes to ensure that every child has the best start in life, in education and in every other aspect, to help them to join the adult world.
That provides a good example of how the critical mass of expertise at a local level is simply not enough to deal with the really big challenges. Although management is best delivered locally, we still have to provide for some access to central expertise on the really important issues.
Although it is inevitably disappointing that not 100 per cent of the required skills or materials are sourced from down the road, our feeling is that as much as is practically possible and consistent with its frameworks and best-value obligations does actually come from Scotland.