This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
It is not a matter of updating facilities that may be fairly recent. If a facility is being refurbished, it is because the asset has come to the end of its life cycle.
The fear that education authorities and other agencies may invoke what can be interpreted as get-out clauses in section 19 of the bill or that they may use another get-out clause on the ground of reasonable cost deserves further attention.
The 40 or 50 people who congregate around those one or two may not be a particular problem, as those young people may be able to be diverted into other activity.
That can be for various reasons. It may be nothing to do with the fact that the child does not need the therapy; it may be because no therapy is available or because of waiting lists.
For example, a company that has received support from the enterprise company to go on a trade mission overseas may tell its next-door neighbour on the industrial estate, which may then seek the same funding.