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The Scottish Learning Disabilities Observatory is a unit within the University of Glasgow and in line with the university’s cookie policy we will make use of Google Analytics to produce anonymised statistics on website usage: to help us to improve our site and the experience of our users. Google Analytics uses cookies in this process. 

Occasionally, we give users the opportunity to save settings for viewing pages. This involves the setting of a cookie. We do not track such cookies. 

Information on cookies can be obtained from www.allaboutcookies.org

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