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The group will meet again in the next couple of months to consider the details of the scheme, the lessons to learn from schemes running in England and Wales and how best to provide for adjudicating disputes.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 March 2009
We will not hesitateto adapt future selection and recruitment processes if that best serves Scottishinterests and ensures that we continue to attract the best possible candidates forour NHS.
We introduced land reform and ended a thousand years of feudalism. We passed the best incapacity legislation in Europe and the best homelessness legislation in the world.
I wish each and every one of you around the table and in the room a very happy new year—all the best for 2008.We have received apologies from Jackson Carlaw.
The 2014 act says that parents and families should be part of the decision-making process and guidance will ensure that best practice, which is always to work with families on information sharing, is followed.
This Government will continue to do what we consider to be in the best interests of Scotland, and the party that I lead will bring forward a manifesto for the coming election that will seek to win the trust of the people of Scotland on building an economy that is more prosperous and a society that is fairer.
However, although I find the whole conversation interesting, I have to say that I am no wiser about accountability than I was at the beginning. With the best will in the world, I think that one could be less clear about this.
Yes—although, without wishing to prejudge the matter in any way, I hope that the Government is considering ways in which it might effect a change. It seems to be untidy at best to leave the provisions lying in the current situation.