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The Audit Scotland report was quite damning about the lack of co-ordination between health and social work in making the best use of public transport—for patients and users rather than for themselves.
We have also heard from members across the chamber that the themes in the recommendations that we have all mentioned need to be co-ordinated. There needs to be a co-ordinated approach across the wide range of policy areas and at different levels of government.
This is about joining up strategies on instrumental teaching in schools with what we are doing through our digital platform. We could probably be more co-ordinated. Great work has been done in primary school music education, but we need to do more.
That is one of the reasons why we are keen for the Scottish Government to implement a pensioner poverty strategy to co-ordinate action across all those areas—energy efficiency, social security support and work on social tariffs—and to bring them together in a co-ordinated and strategic plan with measurable outcomes.
In my letter, I provided a copy of a letter from Anne Potter, the co-ordinator of WASPI Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Dunbartonshire and Renfrewshire, who is known to many members across the chamber.
There are many strings attached to local, Scottish and UK Government agencies, which cut across each other in various ways. There are co-ordination issues. It is challenging to help that group because of the changing nature of the communities whom we work with.