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In answer to a previous question, you mentioned rewards for best practice. If SEPA moved from discharge consents to environmental consents, would you not have a better chance of being rewarded for best practice?
That network has grown up to cross-pollinate best practice at the regional level rather than through national capitals, but a lot of work still has to be done to package and deliver the Lisbon agenda at the regional level and to ensure that best practice does not have to be exchanged through national Government proce...
The first will ensure that we have the information to chart each authority's performance over time and to compare it with the other Scottish authorities and with the best in the UK. Benchmarking means learning from best practice elsewhere.
The petition is about trying to ensure that each local authority adopts best practice and undertakes home safety checks by way of making a commitment to employ a full-time officer.