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If so, will the minister tell us what action he thinks the Executive should take so that, in the future, professional staff will be held to account for their failure to act in cases involving children and young people?
When decisions are taken, I hope that those responsible will always take into account the fact that the youngsters have been in this country for some time.
(S2F-1798) Devolution is delivering a more democratic and more accountable system of government. It is durable, but it is not immutable and it is a process, not an event.
Some reductions were necessary in the number of days at sea for the west of Scotland to take account of the severely depleted cod stocks and the scientific advice that obtained last December.
Both national park authorities were added to the list of bodies in schedule 3 to the Ethical Standards in Public Life etc (Scotland) Act 2000 and so were required to have in place their own codes of conduct for their members, which had to take account of the terms of the model code of conduct that was approved by Parliament.Section 5 of the model code provi...
Following discussions at the service's accountability review in May, the department is expecting to receive a report from the Ambulance Service later this year on progress in implementing priority-based dispatch across Scotland.
Fergus Ewing's extravagant claims about the accountancy at Scottish Water and the Scottish Executive have yet again been shown to be not just exaggerations but diversions from the important debate that we should have.