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Members of the Committee also heard informally and privately from two members of the public who had lived experience of secure care or being a young person in prison.
Committee consideration
As is noted above in relation to school boarding accommodation, students living in student accommodation live communally, and may have travelled from other parts of the United Kingdom or from abroad.
The Spending Review comes at a time of significant pressure on the public purse, with the risk of high levels of inflation and a cost of living crisis pushing more people into poverty.
It recognises that if a child becomes involved in harmful behaviour, they are also likely to be dealing with other difficulties in their lives e.g. neglect, domestic abuse, bereavement.
A crofter’s inability to get a job has a huge impact on their ability to live on their croft and run it effectively and is often a key factor in neglect and absenteeism.
What is happening in Fionnphort in Mull could happen elsewhere in Argyll and Bute. Heat pumps are a live issue for debate. I am certainly keen to see a good and productive outcome from that.
I have been at a few funerals—people end up going to more and more of them at my age, and we appreciate the different parts of people's lives. Health is a big part, and how people live is the other part.
It would be foolish to talk about abandoning settlements or starting to name settlements and point the finger at them. People have lived and continue to live in areas that are at risk in a variety of ways and we must help them to do so if at all possible.
We also agree that those rights should be enjoyed only by those who have a commitment to crofting and who live on or near their croft, using the land beneficially as the report suggests.