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It is welcome that the Tories have got out the piggy-bank and found enough money to increase the number of people who would staff the accident and emergency departments across Scotland.
Do you have information about retention in local authorities? As you say, there is a huge bank of expertise available to employers, whereby social work assistants can be trained to become qualified social workers.
In a sense, it has evolved as a three-way partnership. That said, the Bank of Scotland picks up the tab for the event, which is phenomenally expensive.