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Colleges are different partly because we put resource into the front-line service to help those individuals decide what is the best course for them and, sometimes, what is the best college for them.
The bill appears to have been badly thought out from the start as well as being badly drafted. At best, it is a shoddy piece of work; at worst, it is an utter shambles.
You are saying that the £18 million is a best-case scenario; it is not an unreasonable estimate on a best-case scenario, but you do not believe that that scenario is likely to be achieved.
There might have been a case for greater co-ordination of that role. Are we doing the best that we can and spreading the best examples that we can right across the 32 local authorities?
Through the pilot process of the new best-value model, we were able to try out the way in which we were going to run the best-value programme as we were developing it.
The issue of how pricing around the UK was monitored and shared was at best unclear to us, meaning it is hard to see how Scotland can be comparing the price paid and the arrangements on which these are based to achieve best value.