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The system is set up to justify itself and to celebrate its success, rather than take a critical look at what happens, and that is seen very clearly by practitioners working on the ground.6Scottish Parliament. (2024, September 18).
Hogmanay Celebrations To ask the First Minister what assistance the Scottish Executive will provide to ensure that Scotland is the best place in the world to celebrate hogmanay.
They will be dancing in the streets of Morningside to celebrate that policy, because it means more cash— One of the persons who will be dancing in the streets of Morningside is the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who lives there.
This led to a suggestion regarding how volunteers might be supported and developed further within their roles, as well as recognised more for their contributions:
Maybe like how we celebrate the volunteers and the people in the communities that are actually supporting a lot of this agenda without, you know, without the need for celebration.
There was training for civil servants to be “brought up to speed with the range of specific and distinct Scottish issues” and the Foreign Office “always puts out a communiqué stating the expectation that those days [St Andrew’s day and Burns’ night] will be celebrated across the UK embassy network” but the “ambassador’s enthusiasm and leadership” was key.
Those students whose 16th birthday fell before 1 March 2004 were eligible to leave school at Christmas 2003 and, therefore, have already taken the decision to remain in post-compulsory education without the incentive of an EMA.