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The Committee calls on COSLA and Health and Social Care Scotland to ensure examples of best practice in these specific areas are disseminated across all HSCPs and local authorities.
We finally urge the Health Committee to look at all the specific issues and inclusions outlined above to aid the Scottish Parliament in passing the Legislative Consent Motion (LCM) for the relevant sections of the V&P Bill while opposing those which are not in the best interests of Scottish citizens or devolution.
The Interim Director of Performance Audit and Best Value set out how decisions of this nature are normally handled—
one would expect the accountable officer in Transport Scotland to share their thoughts, ideas, risks and concerns, and to make proposals to the Scottish ministers, on which ministers can reflect and make a formal decision.
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/committees/finance-and-public-administration-committee/20220517_npf_sgengagementevent.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/committees/finance-and-public-administration-committee/20220517_npf_sgengagementevent.pdf</a> [accessed 25 July 2022] Fife Council also considered that funding does not necessarily lead to better practice and better outcomes but they advocated less ring fencing of budgets and using an evidence base to inform new approaches and develop best...
Scotland’s universities are among the best in the world, undertaking cutting edge research that creates knowledge of immense social, economic and cultural value.
Rather than impose our own solution however, the Committee would like to invite you and your Committee to make an adjustment that would afford petitioners some leeway. Your Committee is best placed to decide the scope and parameters of such a compromise.
We want to eradicate duplication and align public sector, private sector and other organisations to look at who is best suited to do the job. Let us not fall over each other; let us look at whatever else we should be investing in as a priority”.[17]
She said: “The strategic board does not have any input to the agencies’ operational plans, but we can review ...
All that we can ever do at any one point with regard to any sector in our economy is to make our best estimate on the basis of our current understanding”.
On that point, we share a common objective with Mr Griffin. Where we differ is on the best means to drive improvement and monitor progress towards closing the gap.