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A range of issues were debated and the Committee agreed to consider the following areas as part of its inquiry:
The ways in which scrutiny and debate can best be conducted in hybrid and virtual formats
An assessment of the impact of virtual participation by MSPs and by committee witnesses
The resource implications of virtual participation
Wider changes to p...
That will enable us to know which groups of young people are more resilient and where there are particular risk factors in order for us to support those young people as best we canHealth, Social Care and Sport Committee, Official Report 25 January 2022, COL11.
The Committee calls on the Scottish Government to collect and share best practice on flexible use of funding for local mental health services towards improving access to sport and physical activity for children and young people living in poverty.
Mr Swinney replied that this should be a matter of choice and told the Committee:
The best way to approach that is by providing the options that enable us to better meet all individuals’ needs in recognition that those might differ from individual to individual.iCOVID-19 Recovery Committee.
The Scottish Government has stated that it will explore what legislative and non-legislative measures can be taken to best protect and support those who need it, whilst ensuring that freedoms of speech, religion and belief are safeguarded.
It has been made clear to all local authorities, through ongoing dialogue and through the grant funding being provided, that ensuring longer term best practice and improvement, as well as value for money from this investment, is essential.
Shared Ownership - Local Energy Scotland
The GPP captures the Scottish Government’s ambition for CSO, as well as best practice, and the publication has been agreed widely by industry, but not always adopted in practice.
Rather, the inclusion of zonal attachment in the preamble can probably be best understood as 'a signal to the EU about the UK government's stance' relating to zonal attachment.1Barnes, R. (2021).
In social security it is common that reserved benefits, to which an individual is already entitled, can serve as qualifying benefits for eligibility to devolved benefits, for example Best Start Grant payments or Scottish Child Payment.