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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
I think that they saw us as a potential cause of a breach of the peace, and we had a lot of problems getting their support. We would see obvious soliciting taking place and we would phone in, but we would be lucky to get a car many hours later.
We have strengthened Scots law in this area by creating a new offence of trafficking in prostitution as part of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003.
(S2O-11880) Good progress has been made. The latest figures from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency show that, from April 2005 to March 2006, Scotland recycled or composted 24.4 per cent of its biodegradable municipal waste.