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I also worked for the Department for International Development for 13 years, during which time I spent 10 years living in sub-Saharan Africa. I am the MSP for Cowdenbeath.
However, there are also benefits to the individual citizens of any member state because they become European citizens and therefore have access to a range of rights, such as being able to live, work, vote and obtain benefits in other member states.
It is not just a matter of telling the client what to do; it is about empowering them to take control of their lives and to make the right decisions when they get out of the bureau.
We need to consider how we can support families in a more sustainable way, because we are almost compounding the problem for families who live on lower incomes if they have only informal childcare.
They have all left because they can no longer afford to travel from where they live to their place of work. We must get much more innovative about working at home.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether current legislation properly reflects its commitment to independent living and, if not, what steps it intends to take to rectify this.
We have yet to see real solutions being proposed.There is quite an emphasis in the document on technological fixes. It assumes that people who are living in old properties are somehow going to retrofit them to a standard where they can live a comfortable and warm lifestyle.