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They will come to our services through having difficulties with movement, co-ordination, handwriting and the activities of daily living, including how they get dressed and how they access things.
I think that, if the Scottish Government is pursuing the ends of the good food nation, it needs to bear in mind that it is not enough to just teach schoolkids or people in further education. We need to get the whole adult population involved in this and growing things needs to become a public activity and a valued activity that everybody can get into.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 February 2019
There are also likely to be resource implications for the Parliament if such activities develop further.
However, although the use of such ‘informal’ mechanisms is clearly valued by MSPs, at the same time they may be less likely to get on the formal record of committees.
We spoke to the Judy Murray Foundation, which cited the impact of peer groups and joining sports activities as part of a group as being crucial to get women into sport.
They really want to be able to use active travel but the infrastructure does not exist, especially in more rural communities, and they do not feel that it is affordable for them to try to get into active travel.