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Significant progress has already been made in the areas of prevention, screening, early detection of cancer, referral and diagnosis, treatment, living with cancer, improving the quality of cancer care and delivery.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 January 2009
The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service database is a live operational database which mainly tracks the processing of the substantive charges received from the Police and Specialist Reporting Agencies.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 December 2008
I will also mention one of my constituents, Jim McLaren, who also lives in Kirkintilloch. I am sure that many of the scouting representatives who are in the public gallery today will know him.
The action plan gives priority to developments for young people and children living with diabetes. That must mean better health outcomes for individual children.
Nevertheless, the report also acknowledges the notable progress that has been made in improving the achievement of children living in poverty. It is clear that efforts have been made to target children living in poverty and raise their educational attainment.
Many of them are not familiar with a settled existence as they are used to living chaotic lives. Intervention is desperately needed in those cases in order to divert them from prison and provide them with the tools that they need to cope with a normal life.
Unless victims are in touch early on with people whom they trust and are more at ease with, there is a high risk that they will leave and go back to their original captors, live on the streets, or who knows what?
That is highly relevant in the debate around education. There is a lively debate about class sizes and teacher numbers, but perhaps there is less discussion of educational attainment and pupil outcomes.