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First of all, there needs to be planning for individual people’s needs, not only through the community care plan but as a result of older people contacting their GP for all sorts of reasons, which should indicate that they might need more support to stay at home more safely for longer.We also found and have described in the report some really good examples ...
In fact, in evidence we were informed that the report on services for disabled children by Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People found that 80 per cent of third sector organisations that were contacted reported a cut in funding and a requirement to make efficiency savings.
We might as well be honest about the fact that a lot of survivors have issues with that.When the person goes for their counselling session, the counsellor contacts the organisation, which provides the funding for that individual.
I urge any miners and others who were arrested and who feel that the charges against them were unjust to contact my colleague Neil Findlay MSP, whom I applaud for all the good work that he has done on the issue.
If somebody coming out of prison has nowhere to live and nobody to contact about it, they are on a slippery slope immediately—we have heard that so often.
I was previously a doctor, so I still have many contacts among clinicians and am repeatedly being told that health boards are gagging them—stopping them talking to MSPs and, indeed, the Health and Sport Committee, as I said in that committee yesterday.
We want to move towards having one contact and one phone number for employers, whether they are from Edinburgh or West Lothian, so that they can be put in touch through DWP provision or through Skills Development Scotland with a young person to whom they can offer a modern apprenticeship, work experience or whatever.
The approach already happens in practice because, I presume, when need is identified, midwives and health visitors can then contact social work or other agencies as needed.
The United States has, however, made a reservation to this and so when an application is submitted to the USA the Central Authority in the USA will arrange for pro bono representation for the applicant.
All credit to the Government for doing that, but if local authorities used their local contacts and engaged the community councils, would not that have a more meaningful impact on local communities in terms of their responses to the national planning framework?