Summary
It's a typical Monday lunchtime and my wife, Magteld, is making sandwiches for the family. Our son, Euan, is darting about the kitchen re-enacting scenes from Scooby-Doo; his younger brother Adam is pushing cars around the table. And over by the sink, making himself useful with the cheese grater, is Humza Yousaf, the SNP MSP for Glasgow, who has set aside eight hours from his Parliamentary schedule to observe our day-to-day family life.
The visit has been arranged as part of a shadowing scheme to give politicians first-hand experience of the challenges facing carers. The two boys, aged eight and six, have autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs) and organising their care is a demanding merry-go-round of assessments, reports and meetings. Mr Yousaf goes shopping with the family, takes the children to the park, helps build Lego police stations, but most of all he talks - at the kind of length, and in the kind of depth, that MSPs rarely manage with their constituents.See the full content of this document
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; Who Cares?
"I want to see what the day-to-day difficulties are, where are the obstacles and the barriers on a day-to-day level," he says when I speak to him before his visit. "What are the things the Government is putting in the way; what can we do to make your life...
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