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As members have said, that does not entirely make sense, as the whole point of co-ordinated support plans is to co-ordinate the actions of otherwise potentially disparate agencies.
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Date answered:
24 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will fund a full-time co-ordinator for the New Lanark World Heritage Site and, if so, when the appointment will take place.
Amendment 10 seeks to ensure that local authorities are required to secure a co-ordinated approach.Amendment 42, in the name of the minister, also deals with co-ordination to implement certain measures.
The Scottish fuel poverty forum has recommended that those visits be co-ordinated to reduce disruption to constituents, speed up delivery and avoid long waiting times.
Having worked for a regulator, I think that it is clear that having the compliance staff, the advice and guidance staff and the enforcement staff in one body helps to ensure that there is co-ordination and an understanding of how those different pieces fit together.
My organisation has been involved—along with HITRANS, Highland Council, NHS Highland and the Scottish Ambulance Service—in a partnership in Lochaber that is aimed at providing more co-ordination, support and advice to people who need transport, who are often people with health needs.
We have also developed a supporting prisoners advice network in co-ordination with Sacro. It does exactly what Robert Aldridge said, providing pre-liberation housing advice to prisoners to ensure that, once they are released, they get into a permanent and stable home.
I was in Ayr last night and Strathclyde the night before and there are fantastic examples there of voluntary bailiffing. If we can get that better co-ordinated, with proper national licensing and national training, we can feed into other agendas, such as employability.
We need to consider how we can bring all those elements together so that we look holistically at the economic case and how we ensure that quality is built into the system so that outcomes for children improve. Co-ordination across Government is needed.