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It was felt that the agencies had too much of a top-down approach and were removed from the actual situation on the ground, ‘they MUST get closer to reality and stop the TOP down approach - it feels like they are in a world of their own and self-interested.’iWritten evidence
In August, Liz Cameron of SCC welcomed the delivery of support schemes but identifi...
Committee reports
Date published:
10 November 2020
However, we were advised of difficulties and delays in funding getting through to providers. The CCPS indicated their members had been having and continued to have difficulties in accessing funding for additional costs for Covid-19 with large amounts of evidence being required before payment.
One of the great difficulties with casework is getting constituents to understand that as an MSP you have pretty much no direct authority over any of the agencies... it is about appealing to the goodwill of those organisations.
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport, Jeane Freeman, said "We need to help people to understand that even though they might not get those [medicines], they will still have been treated.
We think this is the right thing to do when a person is seriously at risk but we know that it also puts off some women accessing services because they fear that if Social Work gets involved, their 'capacity' will be challenged and they will be put under Guardianship.
Committee reports
Date published:
11 February 2020
Dr Macdonald added that:
It would have to be clearly demonstrated why using facial recognition technology was appropriate when it was being deployed, and why other policing methods could not be employed to get the same result.
Justice Sub-Committee on Policing 05 December 2019 [Draft], Dr Macdonald, contrib. 23, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamenta...
The findings were grouped into five themes:
Leading Healthier Lives
Wellbeing and Connected Communities
Person-Centred Care
Social Care and Caring
A Responsive and Seamless Journey of Care
Under a responsive and seamless journey of care the summary report Creating a healthier Scotland - What matters to you noted:
Many of you were unhappy with the length of time it took to get an appointment, particularly if you wanted to see a specific doctor.
How can we tell parents and caregivers that there is no good, reasonable, justifiable reason to hit a child and there are plenty of good, justifiable, reasonable reasons not to- and get that public health message across effectively- when we have a law that says that it is justifiable?
It was argued that the accommodations that allowed a child to answer questions in a different format, could in some circumstances have made it easier for them to get questions correct than if they had answered the questions in the standard format.
Commission for Developing Scotland's Young Workforce Final Report
Opportunities For All - Post-16 transitions - Policy and Practice Framework: Supporting all young people to participate in post-16 learning, training or work
Getting it right for looked after children and young people: Early engagement, early permanence and improving the quality of care
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