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If it is done properly, the hope is that the system will reduce emergency admissions to hospital and give children the best start in life with the early years and early intervention change fund.
In addition, my officials are working with the west of Scotland child protection sub-group on child trafficking to explore how the tools that the London Safeguarding Children Board has developed can best help local authorities in Scotland.
I know that the First Minister cares passionately about retaining the best of our country’s heritage, so will he indicate what actions the Government and its agencies can take to ensure that apprentices can be found places with other companies to conclude their apprenticeships?
Prime among these projects is, of course, the M74 motorway, which has been awaiting completion for the best part of 40 years and which will, under a Scottish National Party Government, finally be finished.
I think that I am right in saying that such issues are arising in many places, so it is perhaps best that the petition is considered as part of a wider inquiry, if the Local Government and Communities Committee intends to do that for PE1231.
Therefore, on 20 December, when Fergus Ewing gave that commitment, the issue was settled in the best interests of the organisation and, because of the organisation's importance, in the best interests of Scotland.