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In order for the Promise to be kept, Jackie Brock from The Promise Scotland highlighted the critical importance of providing appropriate support to care-experienced young people as they make the transition from children and families services to adult services:
We need to home in on how we can get it right for the 16 to 17-year-old age group...because we kno...
If an individual couldn’t access the GP they couldn't get referred. If discharged from a service, individuals have to start at the beginning again and try to access the GP.
The risk of having a scheme that does not work on day 1, that is less ambitious and that, for some reason, does not get public support and momentum or get retailers and producers on board is much greater than the risk posed by the unfortunate but necessary delay that we are proposing, in order to make sure that the s...
Reminding the Committee that most community bodies were run by volunteers, he told us that—
the trajectory is away from supportive transfer towards putting communities through the wringer when it comes to getting the assets. Eligibility under the 2015 act has been increasingly strictly implemented, which has forced people to make lots of minor legal changes...
Committee reports
Date published:
26 November 2020
She felt that—
“…the number of electors from whom we would need to get those details before we could send them a postal ballot pack would be around 3.4 million, and there is the potential for some to be disenfranchised as part of that process.”iStandards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee.
Our concern is that there is a risk that EM would become the default option and that because someone cannot afford to pay, they would get EM. There are lots of ethical issues around EM and proportionality.
Some respondents to the board survey suggested the focus should be on the ability of members rather than membership diversity. They stressed the difficulty in getting people of a high enough ‘calibre’ to apply for board posts.