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Community psychiatry can be really helpful in coming in and giving training on how to cope with a particular service user’s manifestation of their illness, how to de-escalate situations and how to work around and retain the consistency that that individual requires.
In addition, the conflict has lasted longer than world war two and is showing few signs of de-escalating. Many members will remember the don’t bomb Syria campaign of a few years ago, when the UK Government decided to get involved.
There is definitely a therapeutic element to delivering a training session that leaves athletes lying on the track—it is how I de-stress, Deputy Presiding Officer.
I am unclear about that, and the amendment is simply not in a form that I can support. The coup de grâce for amendment 80 is the timescale of “within three months”.
However, we really need to complete the telling of Stirling’s history by erecting the planned magnificent memorial statue to William Wallace and Andrew de Moray at the site of the Stirling bridge battle.
In the November forecast, we did not take on board any potential Scottish Government decisions on the de facto personal allowance or the higher-rate threshold.
I take John McAllion’s point about universalism, but I would prefer a targeted approach to the benefits system. It should be automated where it can be automated, and it should be rights based.
I am based largely in Germany, where the main postal service—Deutsche Post—has established 3,000 packstations, which are automated locker banks where people can go and collect online orders.
Apart from extra funding, which you mentioned, what can be done to encourage local authorities to introduce property-level protection schemes and automated protection schemes in places such as Comrie or Stonehaven?
South of the border, out-of-season licences have not been requested to the point that, de facto, the season is extended because they are used so widely.