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Plans would be considered by the Health and Justice Collaboration Improvement Board in September.
Following the concerns raised by IAs in oral evidence regarding provision of CAMHS services on 29 June a new CAMHS Taskforce was announced by the Scottish Government.
Supplementary guidance generally includes the following:
Development briefs or master plans
Strategies or frameworks on specific issues
Detailed policies
Sustainable Development: Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Our recommendations for enhanced Parliamentary scrutiny should ensure that NPF reviews (with their consequent impact on LDPs) are only undertaken when necessary and following robust consultation and engagement.
Proposed Standing Order rule changes
Following the update to the Written Agreement, the Finance and Constitution Committee was of the view that some consequential changes would be required to Standing Orders.
The Committee recommends that the Scottish Government follow the suggestion of the Boundary Commission and amend the Bill so that the definition of “wholly or mainly” consisting of an inhabited island be changed to "wholly or partly" to provide greater flexibility to better balance a ward.
COPFS were strongly of the view that repeal would create legislative gaps, and provided the Committee with the following explanation of their position:
In my assessment, there would be a gap in the law.
Committee reports
Date published:
11 December 2017
Uprating of benefits
There has also been a call from stakeholders for a regular uprating of forms of assistance following the commitment made by the Scottish Government on this for disability benefits.
[Our contractor] then did a walk-around of sites to identify walls on which they wanted to carry out intrusive surveys, and it checked the as-built drawings. Following that, it did the intrusive surveys and confirmed that walls were built as they should be and were stable, so there were no issues in relation to that.
The Committee notes that best estimates as to the costs to the prison service set out in the Financial MemorandumixAt paragraph 52 are based on an assumption that disposals in relation to the new offence will follow a similar pattern to current disposals in relation to domestic abuse cases, although this may not turn out to be the case in practice.