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Social prescribing of creativity activity and referring individuals to a range of local, non-clinical activities or services is an important approach to self-management of mental health.
Even if we funded them significantly more than we do at the moment, we would still not get a level of participation that was equivalent to the one that we get in compulsory education.
We face opportunities and challenges in getting to net zero. Scottish Water has made a commitment to get to net zero across all our activities by 2040, and we have accelerated all our work around our operational footprint to get there 1...
The report goes on to state that, although sanctions might get people into work quickly in the short term, they fundamentally lead to higher rates of exit to non-employment or economic inactivity, and to more rapid returns to benefit claiming.
If that is what I get and what Carol Mochan gets, it is what every single MSP will be getting, yet the Government comes to the chamber and dismisses those concerns.
Failure to provide this exemption relegates hundreds of birds of prey to a life of total inactivity because we cannot explain to them that they must selectively ignore their most natural of instincts.
In Dundee, I think that the figure is that around 10,000 or 11,000 people are not economically active. One of the challenges is finding ways to get people into work or back into work in a constructive way.