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As the Lord Advocate said, as the age gets closer to the age up to which the children’s hearings system can deal with people, the issues get knottier and there are more of them.
Would that pose a problem? We certainly do not want them to get any bigger, but would it prevent them from getting any smaller, which would be welcome?
The children on the podcast highlighted issues of the impact of seeing your parent get arrested, stigma, being forgotten about and not being asked what’s important for you and being judged when people assume you will get into trouble with the police too.
In April, the Scottish Parliament will get a swathe of new powers on taxation and social security—oh wait, we do not want those just yet—and powers over the energy company obligation.