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A small number of organisations have put in a note of interest on the proposed four-day working week. The Government is co-ordinating views on that, and my CEO is keen on getting involved.
We need to be really thoughtful about that and about the range of professionals involved, because it is not just about the ELC setting itself but the wider support that comes from across the public sector and how we support each family. Having that co-ordination is crucial. I will make a quick plea that these places are delivered and deliverable within priv...
Through our lived-experience advisory panel, we involve asylum seekers and victims of modern slavery in developing and improving our services. We have a community liaison co-ordinator and we have regional managers for both of our services.
The consenting task group that the cabinet secretary mentioned is making good progress on that front. It is developing the co-ordinated consenting process with a single consenting document informed by the multilateral pre-application discussion that Professor Griggs highlighted as being important when he spoke to you in the summer.
Will you consider the possibility of the NHS providing direct support to ensure that things are more co-ordinated and seamless in the future? As I said, we will continue to monitor the situation.
Tricky decisions will have to be made, but we should be looking across a raft of capabilities and asking how we bake this into an excellent NHS and public health system for Scotland. A lot of this is about co-ordination and connectivity rather than huge new investment.
Could the Government or local government do more to co-ordinate a national or local authority level register to assist with waiting lists and gauging demand?
He told me that the huge lack of co-ordination across services means that veterans routinely struggle to access dental care on leaving the armed services.