A couple of Scottish updates to end with.
Scotland is increasingly diverging from practice south of the border when it comes to support for people with disabilities.
One of the ways in which the Scottish government is trying to build a fairer social security system for the planned 500,000 benefit transfers is by establishing experience panels of people who receive benefits, or have done in the past. More details here.
And I was interested to hear about the Purple Alert, a mobile phone app which can be used to find people with dementia who go missing. A great pity that it only operates in Scotland.
So far, it has had a 100 percent success rate, finding vulnerable individuals within four hours. Find out more here.
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