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Scottish Government guidance will make clear that public bodies should report on their contribution to the National Performance Framework in their published corporate and business plans and annual reports to best support parliamentary scrutiny of their activities and public spending. 16.
I whole-heartedly agree that it is important to give our children the best possible start in life, and I strongly support this opportunity to foster an open dialogue on the best way of achieving that over the longer term.
In short, when parents separate, it is in the best interests of the child that both parents remain present and involved during the child’s development.
As you know, Healthcare Improvement Scotland is independent of Government, so the intention is that it will work out the best way of ensuring that it inspects regulated premises as often as it needs to.
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.