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Stupid incompetent or dishonest? Maybe I should try that line with my tax......in summary I have received a salary for my labour this year but it is not possible to identify the specific amount received, sorry.

I don't think that there is a national description of how the role is to be executed, but that sounds broadly right. Sorry let me re-phrase 'little extra workload.' The holiday situation I cannot comment on as my context is 365 days a year. At the minute there is a systematic failing. Read the Daniel Pelka case for an example of this, lots of people had bits of the picture but there was no clear person that all the info should have gone to. What you mention is individual failings and no system can eliminate the possibility of people not doing their jobs properly. This is not the solution to all the worlds ills, it is not perfect. But it will help a lot of children.

I am normally a quiet lurker on this board. But in this instance have something valuable to add. I am a Child Care Manager and a Child Protection Professional. I have read many reports, like the Baby P case and there are more than you can imagine. The most common thread in all of them is that there was lots of information floating around at the time the child died but no single person had the full picture. That this person will be in the school, usually the Head, does not mean that they are going to be tasked with a lot of extra work. It will be their job to blow the whistle and let other services take over. This is not interfering in the job of being a parent.

One win in six games against the three top teams is the reason we are not going and do not deserve to go.

Normally I am big on keeping sport and politics apart. Sport can help to break down barriers, reduce prejudice and increase understanding and inclusion. But this is not an issue about politics. This is a sporting issue. Over 1000 people have died building stadia in a country that we are playing a match against. The Qatari FA must shoulder some of the blame for this and here we are inviting them into our house as guests. It is wrong and I will have nothing to do with it.

....or......all of them!

It was just rubbish! The importance of context and power cannot though be underestimated when discussing racism. The white man has for centuries oppressed the black man. (We should not allow ourselves to indulge in whataboutery). A bunch of white middle class students then dressing up as black men in an almost totally black country is inviting criticism. The idea of fancy dress is that it is supposed to be funny. What were they thinking, who was going to laugh at them?

I'll bite. Which SNP policies are Tory?

Agreed with all of that. However history will also record that he has fractured the union in doing so.

Not many in work feel as strongly as I do so everyone pretty much gives me a very wide berth when matters of politics come up. There are a few though that I am lying in wait for, got to be careful as I am a senior manager!! I took the 19th off, was told by folk on the Monday that best I didn't come in as the atmosphere was strangely subdued and odd, most were YES voters in my work. I was able to convince most people in my circles to vote YES. The few who voted no seem to be finding it difficult to look me in the eye!

BBC not able to run with "Nigel Farage supports EU exit after Edinburgh firearms incident."

Nah, that has usually been recorded by now! Yeah having spent many years as a lurker I should know better.......... So anyone got any good alternatives?

Tis not my first choice either. Have two Aussies over and need to repay the favour they did us last year in Sydney. (Fireworks over the Sydney Bridge v Freezing cold on Princess St, me thinks last year was better). It seems to be bucket list thing for a lot of Aussies.

Thanks, does the zone include the front of Princess Street? Could I be in a restaurant or hotel bar and still be in the zone?

Anyone been in recent years and is it worth it? I was last there in the mid 90's before tix were required. Is it still the case that the cordoned area takes in much of Princess Street so if you are in the area at the time the gates are 'closed' you can stay? Not surprisingly the official website lacking info on this ticket dodge!

Availability seems to be getter better. Now 12 sections with 'limited' and 2 with 'good'. Last night there were only 2 sections listed and both of them as 'limited'. Me thinks the SFA are at it! Never used to happen this way.

Agreed. Anyone who thinks that there will not be a HUGE Irish support is kidding themselves. Only 34,000 at the game at Ibrox remember and with all due respect to the 'derby' nature of this game it is not that attractive as a match so an optimistic extra 10,000 Scots for this one in my opinion. A sell out means an extra 28,000 sold I believe the majority will be in green.

empty seats were behind the camera in the Main Stand.

Price and referendum will both have knocked a fair few thousand off.

I used to quiet like and admire them. Lots of policies that they knew were not going to be popular but they adopted because they thought it was the right thing to do. Clegg is their Blair, the man who sold all the principles for power. And at price that will in retrospect be seen as far too cheap. They will get a pasting in the general election and it will be well deserved. They did not have to join the Tories and they could have held out for some of their policies to be adopted by simply promising to abstain in a vote of no confidence. This would have kept the Tories in power and the Lib Dems out of the firing line at least to some extent whilst still getting them some of the things that they wanted. It would also have curbed the worst of the Tories plans as they would not have had the votes. Instead they have supported policies that they not only disagreed with but that they actually campaigned against. For what, a ministerial car and a salary bump? I hold them in total contempt. At least people knew the Tories would target the poor and appease the wealthy. 57 seats the last time. SNP may possibly beat their total this time round.

Again I agree but can't and shouldn't are two very different things. Our job now is to be ready for them. The can only wriggle out of it if we let them. They will leave us high and dry but we must shout it out that they are breaking promises. Home Rule and Federalism were mentioned by Brown, not by the vow so from that they will walk away. But they only get away unscathed if we quietly tut and then vote Labour, Tory or Lib Dem next May. 75,000 SNP members + the SSP and SG are a huge number and have a reach throughout the country that as yet is untested. Feet to the Fire? Heavens that is only the beginning. How will they like their union if we return a significant number of SNP MP's. Remember the Lib Dems held the balance of power with only 57 seats. 25-30 SNP MP's could well do the same. Imagine the scenario of a Labour minority government having to face an effective Tory majority in most votes, as they are English matter and the SNP chooses to abstain.

I agree but he three vow signatories will claim that there is no defined thing as Devo Max. What the Scottish Parliament defined was SNP propaganda, boo hiss, and then they will offer Devo Nano and await a right royal round of applause. Bet though they find a way to drag it out to after next May.

You can't extrapolate an average across the country due to the vast number of people who vote tactically. It means that the picture is very different in what would otherwise be similar parts of the country. I would though put a small wager on the SNP returning the biggest number of MP's they have ever had.

No sound on that clip!

It will be interesting to see whether the public will accept the line of 'we never actually said that when we made the vow'. We all know that they actually committed to nothing specific at all. Just a timetable. But there is an 'understanding' that most people have as to what was meant by this and it is more than next to nothing. I think you have to go further back than even 1997. 1992 was the last Labour manifesto that was in any socialist. In terms of habit that is a 22 year problem. We need a press that is prepared to stop and question Labour as to why they are going to follow Tory spending pledges and then to tell the public what this means. Don't try to hard to understand, that way madness lies. Educating the populace is the way forward. The referendum has started this, many many people have had their eyes opened and are not shuffling back in the shadows.