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If our teachers identify children on the autistic spectrum—which we train them to do—we expect them to respond on day one. If diagnosis follows, that is helpful, but it is an additional aspect.
At the back end of last week, I received an e-mail from a crofter in which he copied to me correspondence to the Crofters Commission following the current initiative on absenteeism.
—Official Report, 11 December 2008; c 13392.That was followed in February 2009 by John Swinney’s claim that local government“sits alongside the Scottish Government as an equal partner”.
We have taken up some of them, but there is more to be done. I will let in Richard Simpson, followed by Michael Matheson, Helen Eadie and Mary Scanlon, all to ask supplementaries.