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From the written evidence, you can see some of the connections that we have to the UK and Scotland’s best minds on those issues. We try our best to cover the same as everyone else.
Of course, I always encourage everyone who is eligible to do so to apply for the Scottish Government benefits to which they might be entitled, including best start foods, best start grants and the Scottish child payment.
All of that is geared towards determining how the Scottish Government satisfies itself that it is making the best use of all of its resources together to support people with disabilities in Scotland.
It is reasonable to expect that colleges will have a degree of autonomy in determining how best they achieve the objectives that they have agreed with the Scottish Government, via the Scottish Funding Council.
The key point is that you are probably never going to eradicate that fraud. The best that you can do is to ensure that the controls and processes that are in place—and the use of the data that you have access to—are the best possible.