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The health care professionalsinvolved in referring children to the Centre and those receiving referrals willtake into account a number of factors, including age, in determining priority inindividual cases.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
5 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive by how much it will reduce the budget of Highlands and Islands Enterprise to account for the changes of functions of the local enterprise companies.
All the events in the child's life are taken into account—whether they present offending behaviour, whether they are at risk or whether there is a mix of the two.
The introduction of the meningitis B vaccine into the childhood immunisation programme, which the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation recommends, is a case in point, because meningitis B is now the commonest form of meningitis in the UK and accounts for 90 per cent of meningococcal infections.
Currently, reference is made only to “a member of any listed tribunal”. That does not account for individuals who exercise functions as a listed tribunal.
Although ultimately the legislation around flexible working is reserved, the Scottish Government is accountable for its own employment practices, and the wider public sector in Scotland should be accountable for its own practices, as well.
There is a good period of much increased certainty before the revenue budget implication of paying the unitary charges for projects kicks in. In practice, the accountant in the health board or local authority is probably quite happy if the payment is delayed for a year because that is how accountants look at things, ...