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We heard about the different groups of people for whom accessing social housing remains a particular challenge including young people who are not going to university or college but who cannot or don't want to live...
Committee reports
Date published:
11 December 2017
The Minister, in her appearance before the Committee, set out her position with reference to paragraph 12 of the delegated powers memorandum, which was published with the Bill—
“the Scottish Government is live to concerns about the effect of this approach on the opportunity for the Parliament to control the detail around the different types of assistance d...
On the same day as the consultation analysis was published, the Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform wrote to the Committee to announce that—
Scottish Ministers have agreed to permit the shortening, by up to a third in length, of the tails of Spaniel and Hunt Point Retriever puppies that are likely to be used for working in their later lives. This will allow individual veterinary surgeons to use their professional judgement about whether shortening the tail of a puppy is justified by the possible avoidance of more serious injury in later life.
It is worth repeating that this perspective is reflected in a recent report from Education Scotland based on four years of its inspections in schools which states—
More work now needs done to ensure that Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood education provides young people with knowledge and skills to make informed, responsible and healthy choices about their lives, the real world and online world.
In the final year of the period in which the targets should be met (April 2030 to March 2031), the Scottish Ministers’ progress report must include a statement on the percentage of children still living in relative poverty, absolute poverty, combined low income and material deprivation and persistent poverty.
Overall, we know that a child is more likely to be identified as having additional support needs if they live in an area of deprivation, but the local authority variation does not seem to be very obviously related to that.
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In response to concerns raised about the effectiveness of Police Scotland's ICT systems, Mr Matheson confirmed that Police Scotland currently has the same access to live information on terrorist events as the BTP, clarifying that: "It has that access now and that will continue to be the case".9Cabinet Secretary for Justic...
Table1 shows the estimated percentage of Scottish households living in dwellings belowthe bedroom standard in each local authority area in 2005-06, and table 2 showsthe estimated percentage of children who live in such households.
To ask the Scottish Executive what schemes the Scottish Swimming Healthy Living Manager has developed to ensure that as many people as possible start to swim.