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Edinburgh Tenants Federation said that trust can be built between tenants and the public sector if housing officers visit areas where people have difficulties, get them to talk about their problems and offer help.
It is everywhere we look—in the newspapers and on the television. We cannot get away from it. However, the cost of living crisis is not new for many people and is very serious for them.
What is known is that post is just one of many entry routes for drugs into prison, with other well-known routes including people entering prison for different reasons, not least prison officers themselves, as well as getting drugs over the wall. The many failed attempts to tackle the issue show that that control of supply has limited impact.
We welcome this, but significant consideration will be needed to getting this right.
We welcome the suggestion that there will be a helpline (phone and online) to aid in supporting survivors of CP, and an online education resource, funded by the UK Government.
The aim was to ensure that areas of the Act which are covered by European law, and those that are domestic in origin, did not get out of step. However, this was repealed by the Equality (Amendment and Revocation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019/305.
Building standards verification: Much of the Committee’s building standards work over the session has focused on the issue that what gets built quite often does not match the plans that have been approved by building standards verifiers.
Scottish Renewables told the Committee:
the amount of offshore wind capacity awarded to Scottish projects fell across the first three auction rounds...If we are getting only 9 per cent of the projects through from a CfD round, we simply cannot deliver the economic and environmental benefits that this industry wants to deliver for Scotland.EEFW Committee, Of...
A lot more thinking needs to be done to get it fully trauma informed and survivor centred.iiEducation and Skills Committee, Official Report, 7 October 2020, Janine Rennie, Wellbeing Scotland
This is a point echoed by Joanne McMeeking of CELCIS, who notes that—
Emotional support is absolutely critical, particularly for survivors who are considering or making...
Postal voting also raises other challenges, like getting replacement ballot papers out in time if needed and ensuring that individuals are clear on when they must send back their ballot paper for it to be counted.