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However, we have done a great deal about family contact. Visits are not what they used to be. Much more accent is now put on encouraging families to visit prisoners and on making visits easier and more useful.The link centres that we are establishing are initiatives that will ...
We also have control networks in each major location, which generally meet monthly to discuss issues of the day, new initiatives or whatever. I go on a road show every year and visit three or four locations.
The prison needs proper visit facilities, but all the individuals to whom we spoke felt that, in many other ways, they have secure, quality visits—those who receive visits.
The committee has been on evidence-taking visits and, on a visit to the Stirling area, it met at one of our focus groups representatives of a disabled group, who complained about being targeted because of their disabilities.
New Opportunities Fund To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of the out-of-schools learning funding under the New Opportunities Fund will be allocated to Scotland.
However, the public in Aberdeenshire have raised concerns because the council there has just spent £0.5 million on buying six houses in the private market, competing against local people.