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They have to meet requirements to do with regulation of care, child supervision and health and safety, which take up a huge amount of time before people get to take part in activities with children.
There are different levels of trade union organisations in local government. It might be easier to get the STUC to represent them or to get a delegation of two or three senior trade union representatives.
However, there is a fundamental flaw in the suggestion that because a case does not get junior counsel, the person involved will get poorer representation.
I am concerned that, if people are determined to get these knives but they cannot get them from licensed retailers, the trade will be driven underground.
That is what happens with Emma Lawson and Jessie Mitchell: they do not get to keep their pensions and receive the personal allowance; they merely get the personal allowance.