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(Scotland) Act 2000 This document was withdrawn and replaced with the Code of Conduct for Councillors (SG/2018/65), which was laid on 18 April 2018. 18 April 2018 Code of Conduct for Councillors (SG/2018/65) laid under section 1(5) of the Ethical Standards in Public Life etc.
The inspection regulations will give funeral inspectors powers in relation to inspecting relevant bodies, and both sets of regulations will put in place clear legal requirements that burial authorities will have to adhere to and be inspected against. The funeral director code of practice already sets out requirements for funeral directors, and we propose that the code and the three sets of regulations—including the Burial and Cremation (Inspection) (Scotland) Regulations 2025—will all come into force on 1 March next year.
Over the next few months, we will look at the issues that children and young people have identified and how we might code them against the current education system.
Child and adult protection services in local authorities are governed by legislation that is underpinned by Scottish Government national guidance on child protection and by a code of practice for adult support and protection.
I am thinking of the difference between live trapping with humane cable restraints and the current Scottish code-compliant snare. There are a number of different impact assessments.
Although it has produced some publications on GP activity and has managed to make the data available at national level and NHS board level, we have some issues with the quality of the data because things are coded differently in different general practices.
Therefore, it is possible through non-statutory and non-legally binding mechanisms to try to clarify what we mean. The ministerial code and the Scottish ministerial code are further examples of that kind of mechanism.
It is important that those are fully and properly understood. There is a statutory code of practice to help people to understand the role of a named person.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 September 2018
Since then, following triage, 999 calls are coded to one of five categories based on the likelihood of serious outcomes or the requirement for specific interventions.