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Quite rightly, Dame Elish referred to the scale of the living environment—I think that she meant its context in relation to the communities that women come from and go back to.
That could be a problem for many owners: for example, young families who are struggling with a mortgage, or elderly persons who are living on pensions, with only modest savings.
We cannot solve all the problems with one measure, but if we could solve the problem in public places, it would certainly make the lives of many of my and, I am sure, Christine Grahame’s constituents a lot better.
The tribunal has the capacity to determine what will happen next in the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in our society, and its powers include the ability to impose treatment against an individual’s will and the ability to deprive individuals of their liberty.
It also means that there will be a much greater focus within the post-16 education system on meeting the needs of those young people. Opportunities for all is now live, and will become operational over the next financial year.I will give a quick run-down of the funding announcements that I have made to date.
Before the recent increases, we reckoned that 770,000 households in Scotland were living in fuel poverty. As a result of the price increases, that number has increased by 170,000.
However, there has to be a recognition that some of the children that we are talking about have had very, very disrupted early lives. We talked about the most difficult looked-after children for schools to make contact with.
It is not so important who builds the houses; what is important is that the houses are where people want to live. We have to plan longer term for that, as opposed to planning year by year.