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It has come up with a solution that suits it best financially. As Troqueer is a traditional housing estate, a lot of the people who live there are elderly.
The funding of local advice provision is the responsibility of local authorities. They are best placed to judge competing demands, and therefore best placed to determine what assistance might be appropriate for individual citizens advice bureaux.
I assure Karen that I will keep an extremely close eye on those costs to ensure that best value is achieved. The social inclusion budget increases significantly between 2001 and 2003-04.
Businesses clearly find the information that it provides helpful and the public agencies that are involved will continue to develop and expand the site.Provision of information on a one-to-one basis is often the best way to persuade businesses to do things differently.
I would not want to predetermine how best to do that. I hope that the process is as informative as possible and involves individual members in setting the priorities that are agreed in the budget later in the year.
Some of the people we represent live in those communities. The words "best practice" seem to be used a lot in the Parliament and an example of best practice seems to be the pilot scheme at St Ninians.
On the level of the Scottish Parliament as an employer, we must ensure best practice not just in compliance, but in promoting equal opportunities, which is about encouraging best practice and looking and learning from elsewhere.