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Given what I have heard from residential workers at the past couple of conferences that I attended, I know that they are important in some young people’s lives and have helped to turn their lives around, and we want to provide that support beyond the care setting.
The first of these was published in 2011, with the vision that:
...all adults with autism are able to live fulfilling and rewarding lives within a society that accepts and understands them.
We are currently consulting on the successor arrangements for community care grants and crisis loans for living expenses. We will make decisions on future arrangements in the light of the responses.
For the 400,000 people who are paid less than the living wage, I invite the SNP and the First Minister to support Labour’s campaign to make payment of the living wage the expectation, not the exception, in all public sector contracts.
The ability to facilitate legal assistance outwith a police station would avoid the unnecessary interference with people’s private lives that is caused by taking them to a police station when it is not otherwise necessary.
Most of the crofts are small, with a large, albeit in many cases environmentally sensitive, outrun. One crofter may live very close to his neighbour. Settlements are small, there is housing pressure and people tend to live in close proximity to one another.
They can enhance each other. The potential for lives being saved is likely to be the greatest that Scotland will see in its history of helping survivors of child abuse.
If we do them even only partly, we will make a tremendous difference to the lives of many people in this country—lives that are scarred by the misery of problem debt. 12:59 Meeting suspended. 14:30 On resuming—