This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
Any information on some of the potential difficulties with direct payments that we must address would also be useful.In a recent court case, although the dispute was between a person and their personal assistant or employee, the local authority was found liable.
We accepted that group's recommendations in full, including the recommendation to expand effective, quality-assessed and community-based interventions and programmes for persistent young offenders as part of a national strategy for youth crime.
That would be perfectly adequate under the directive, as it is not until 2009 that programmes in relation to river basin districts must be established.
Regarding registers, the minister says in his letter:"local authorities are best placed to balance the competing objectives of comprehensiveness on the one hand and clarity, accessibility and cost … on the other hand".He goes on to say that his letter to local authorities"invites views on whether more detailed guidance would assist them in … their obligatio...
That consistency will ensure that all parties are treated equally and will assist us when we consider the transcripts of oral evidence.Does the committee agree to tell the assessor that it expects him to specify a maximum of five minutes for each closing statement, with the promoter making its closing statement first, before the group representative makes h...
Section 91(1) provides a power to issue directions to local authorities in relation to the provision of assistance under part 2. The power is very wide and we put various options to the Executive, which were: exercising the power by issuing guidance; limiting the direction-making power; or exercising the power by making regulations or orders subject to parl...