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Members indicated agreement.European Year of Equal Opportunities for All 2007 European Year of Equal Opportunities for All 2007 Agenda item 2 is the report of my visit to Berlin for the launch of the European year of equal opportunities for all.
(S2O-9711) The Executive invited Julius Lang to come to Scotland to support our preparations for implementation of community justice authorities. In the course of the visit, Mr Lang gave a presentation on community courts to the violence reduction unit in Glasgow but that was additional to the main reason for his visit.
We are in contact with the appropriate people to see whether it will be possible to arrange a suitable date for the committee to visit HMP Barlinnie. We thought that it would be preferable to visit the prison at the same time as Clive Fairweather's inspection team visits it.
I declare an interest: I put into my curriculum vitae that one of my interests is visiting ruins. Nowadays, I should add "visiting the Falkirk wheel", as we take all our visitors there, too.
Cornton Vale Prison (Visit) Item 8 concerns the visit to Cornton Vale prison by members of our committee, along with members of the Justice 2 Committee.
Brigades will be continuing these visits, which havebeen welcomed by staff and residents, until all care premises have been covered.In some 80% of the visits, recommendations have been made about improvements infire safety.