A former welfare rights officer has been appointed to the post of deputy minister for community care. Hugh Henry MSP was also a development officer with the social work department of Strathclyde Regional Council until local government re-organisation in 1996.
He later became the leader of Renfrewshire Council until his election to the Scottish parliament. It is Henry’s first ministerial appointment.
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