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If we want to do what the First Minister always asks us to do and show that we are the best small country in the world, is not sending a Scottish team to the Olympic games the best way of doing that?
The issue is a real concern. As I said, members had the best of intentions in joining groups, but they now find that they cannot attend them through sheer pressure of work.
The care standards are much more general and more suited to guidance and examples of best practice, which it would not usually be appropriate to include in regulation.I have the first draft of the standards hereāthe second draft will be very different.
It is quite clear that Noel Ruddle was an evil man, but he is entitled to look after his own best interests. Others were elected to look after the best interests of the public, and they failed.