“Many grandparents and other older people will be planning to help with childcare as parents return to work. Can the Minister issue specific guidelines on what older people can and cannot do in those circumstances?”
Month: June 2020
LOCAL DENTISTS TO RESUME WORK ON MONDAY
Following a move on Monday 22 June enabling NHS dental practices across Greater Glasgow and Clyde to deliver face-to-face urgent dental care, plans are now in place to allow practices to deliver routine care from 13 July onwards.
JOBS GUARANTEE SCHEME MUST BE BROUGHT IN NOW
West Dunbartonshire has been hit particularly hard by Covid-19 related unemployment. Figures from the Department of Work and Pensions show that unemployment in the area rose from 2885 in March 2020 to 4440 in April 2020.
GIVE EVERYONE A MASK, SAYS LIBDEM WILLIE RENNIE
Mr Rennie said: “Across the globe we are seeing the mounting importance of face coverings in every day life. As we move out of lockdown and people venture out more to work, shop or see friends it’s important that there are plentiful and readily available supplies.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
But there is another question that needs to be asked, another reality that needs to be confronted and which many, it seems to me, are avoiding or are simply dismissive of. The question is: ‘Can we ever bring about such a change permanently?’ Can we ever sit back and say, we have changed our world, we have finally wiped this moral illness from the face of the earth?
£80 BILLION NEEDED TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY
The first minister says the Scottish government has published a paper today that puts forward some hopefully constructive proposals for the UK can stimulate the economy.