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We have also been looking at child advocacy provisions and how best we can get advocates for children so that their views can be taken into consideration and things can be challenged on their behalf.
We in Government certainly try to support boards and local partners to take forward best practice. The National Autism Implementation Team published the pathways report a couple of years ago.
From reading the papers, it is a bit unclear how we follow that money. We are happy to do our best to provide a bit of clarity. You are right that some of it is about the timing of the publication of the section 22 report and the completion of the accounts and so on.
When I ask myself the question that Ross Greer posed, I think about all those people who say, “It was one of the best experiences of my life” when they are 50, 60 or 70 years old.
I know the SSPCA well, and I would say that Mike Flynn, whom I meet regularly on a range of animal welfare issues, is the best person to ask whether the SSPCA thinks that it can take on these powers.
My local authority in South Lanarkshire has been purchasing, through finance, quite a lot of private houses in the area, particularly in East Kilbride. Do you know of any best practice in relation to other local authorities doing that sort of thing?
My local authority in South Lanarkshire has been purchasing, through finance, quite a lot of private houses in the area, particularly in East Kilbride. Do you know of any best practice in relation to other local authorities doing that sort of thing?
More than £1 billion has been spent on 12 new benefits, which include council tax reduction, the Scottish child payment and the best start grant. A lot of those benefits are outside the health portfolio.
We are having conversations on that with local authorities. Do you feel that that is the best approach, or would you welcome an opportunity to do the same as the UK Infrastructure Bank does?