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Guidance on Child Witness Court Familiarisation Visits is being issued today. The guidance sets out standardsof best practice for all those who carry out pre-trial visits with the aim of helpingto reduce the anxiety and stress experienced by children when attending court.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 February 2004
The Expert Group onProstitution, under the chairmanship of Sandra Hood OBE, has had five meetings so farand its work is still in the early stages. The Group has visited Dundee and Edinburgh togather information about prostitution in those cities.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
31 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will respond to Point of Concern 2.6 in the Association of Visiting Committees for Scottish Penal Establishments Annual Report for the year ending 31 March 2001 regarding suicide prevention; whether it shares the concerns of visiting committees that the practices of isolation...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in establishing the customer standards code of practice in accordance with section 26 of the Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 October 2002
My first happy duty is to welcome Colin Campbell as a new committee member. Colin, the pre-meeting has given you a glimpse of how gripping the committee will be.
SEA is a vital tool in our work to ensure that when we seek to introduce new public plans for change in Scotland the environment is fully taken into account, not as an afterthought, but up front in the first stages of development of any new strategy, plan or programme.I have set out the general principles that we see...