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In removing the previous presumption of public benefit and requiring all charities to pass the test, we are ensuring that all charities must live up to public expectations of what a charity is.
We should keep things flexible and not tie ourselves into something at this stage—albeit that it is something that all of us have bought into, which means that it should be in place for a while. Currently, we live in impressively harmonious times.
A lot of talented people work in local government.On a number of occasions, you mentioned that you live in South Ayrshire—or was it North Ayrshire or somewhere else?
Our hope is that our incursions into the fields of continuing professional development and competence will expose to teachers the fact that we are a body that touches their professional lives throughout their careers and that is not restricted to probation.
If people aspire to buy their own home and have lived in that home for 10 years—or if they have lived in different houses in the public rented sector for 10 years and wish to buy the home that they now live in—I do not think that that is unreasonable where that right currently...
That is framed not just in terms of traditional representative democracy, where being accountable to the people means holding elections every five years, but as a triangular, living partnership—Executive, Parliament, people.