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I believe that the children's hearing (Scotland) bill has been postponed specifically in order to get it right. Should we not do the same with the SSI?
At the moment, people go to CABx not only to get health service advice and information, but to get housing and benefits advice—they have only to go to one place for the whole spectrum of advice, which is where the current arrangement works well.
Please refer to the information note on implementation of the Early Years Framework, which has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 51402) Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC) is the national approach to helping children and young people in Scotland.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 March 2009
These include our Early Years Strategy, Getting it right for every child, the Children''s Hearings Bill, and action in relation to adoption and fostering, and corporate parenting.
Back in the mid-1980s, I attended a Bruce Springsteen concert in which he said in a preamble to a song: “Blind faith in your leaders ... will get you killed.” Perhaps the Jews, Sinti and Roma peoples did not sign up to Nazism, but many others did and millions paid the price.
We have been up hill and down dale trying to find a way to get “deciduous” into the bill. The simplest thing is to delete everything else and make the bill refer to shrubs or trees in groups of two or more.
As with all things, as we work our way through, we will look to see whether we can get the same outcomes for slightly less or get better value for money elsewhere.