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Describing the three-year budget plan, one council officer described how initial savings opportunities did not have to be firm:
Some of this is a matter of putting down waymarkers ... until more detailed evidenced based work is done, but there is a process for getting from A to B.
The officer suggested that this could prevent a reduction of services:
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At the moment, you can access a pot of money to get support but that cuts you out from another level of support that you might need.ivEconomy, Energy and Fair Work Committee, 18 September 2018, col 24
The Minister agreed that the system could be more coherent.
It is appreciated that progress can sometimes be frustratingly slow, but that is the consequence of trying to get things right and ensure patient safety, which is paramount at all times.
Committee reports
Date published:
11 December 2017
As well as making that point, Carer’s Trust Scotland suggested more than one person should be able to get carer's assistance for looking after the same person and an individual carer should be able to add together the hours spent caring for different people to reach the entitlement threshold.2Carers Trust Scotland. (2017).
Committee reports
Date published:
1 September 2017
The Children in Scotland submission highlights findings from Enable's report Included in the Main stating:
...66% [of teaching staff] feel they don’t get enough support to meet the needs of pupils with learning disabilities.
Bullying policies in schools are important as frameworks but we would always want to get to the point at which bullying is minimised through the school’s culture being such that it is not acceptable and not thought cool to be cruel.
It was their experience the local authority did not meet its duty of care to families with NRPF in line with United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 or Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC).2Hemat Gryffe. (2017).