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Mr Routh-Jones referred to the practice in some local authorities of embedding local liaison officers within them and suggested that this is an area that could be developed, saying that “It is far better to have a single unit of cross-reference of organisations within one room that can meet on a regular basis and brush ideas and thoughts across each other”....
I sincerely hope that all parties are now seeing the very early results of our efforts to improve the contract’s performance as the effects of the work that we have done with the SPS and the multi-agency liaison group start to yield positive results.
The Stroke Association has been very concerned about the fact that, although the immediate rehabilitation systems are now good and the Government has done well in moving forward on the rapid admission of people with stroke to the appropriate specialist stroke unit, we are still failing substantially on the post-immediate rehabilitation phase, which often in...
We can do whatever we like at the higher level, but if the school does not have a teacher who can spend an afternoon working with a group of parents on their children’s learning, or a home-school liaison person, or an educational psychologist who can be brought in to support a family in crisis, all the ambition around engaging parents comes to nothing.
More seriously, as part of the recognition of poor health conditions throughout Scotland, local authorities were at one point required to appoint health liaison or health promotion staff—I do not recall what the title was.
Free NHS eye examinations are available annually, where required, for children aged under 16 and adults aged 60 and over. For children rapid growth may require them to attend for eye examinations annually.
The funding of an additional £10 million that I have announced for rapid deployment and fast prioritisation is specifically for local authorities to put those arrangements in place.