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You will also see in the strategy that a lot of work is being done on pre-crisis intervention—getting to people before their situations escalate to becoming specialist mental health challenges.
I would reflect that we had an integrated set-up pre-integration and before the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014, so we already had an integrated planning arrangement between the council and health for community health and social care services.
At that time, funding rates were chronically low, although we recognise that rates have increased by, I think, 26 per cent since the pre-policy days—or the 600 hours days.
I am aware that our links practitioners made a real effort to manually phone around the people they supported pre-pandemic to ensure that it was not just people who could email who were supported.
However, comparing last year’s budget to this year’s budget is not a true comparison. In COSLA, we are looking at pre-Covid figures and where we are at now, and not at Covid in the middle.
Our first item of business is a decision on whether to consider in private at future meetings our work programme, pre-budget letter and approach to stage 1 scrutiny of the Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill.
I agree with Mary Glasgow, particularly on the impact of delays on children. As you know, there were delays pre-Covid, but things have got much worse during Covid, which is a particular concern.
Many people start their journey into criminality and violence pre-birth. We know from work that we have done on adverse childhood experiences and the impact that growing up—Inaudible.