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A bilateral meeting with Ontario Provincial Minister Brad Duguid involved discussion of policy areas and explored examples of where Scotland and Ontario can share examples of best practice, and work together for mutual benefit.
The principle is that there is a partnership: Creative Scotland is not implying that it knows what is best for the locality; that comes from the locality.
The financial services sector has grown by 46 per cent over the past five years and the demand for staff in Edinburgh and Glasgow has resulted in Scotland being the best area of the UK for graduate pay.
I have sympathy with the view among children’s organisations that abuse of children in domestic violence cases should be recognised in its own right, but the Government believes that the bill strikes the right balance and that major reform of the criminal law on the abuse of children is best considered separately. That law is under review, and I sincerely h...
The problem is that the debtor may not be the best person to do that; other family members may take a different view and the best case may not therefore be presented in court.
Most important, we need change so that our children receive the best decisions from hearings—decisions that are taken in their best interests, wherever they live in Scotland.
That is extremely worrying, so the convener's suggested course of action is probably the best that we can do at the moment. I have another practical suggestion.