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Every day, one in 10 of the population visits a community pharmacy; more than 60,000 people visit their family doctor; 8,500 people visit the dentist for a check-up; 2,700 people receive a free eye test; and district nurses make 12,600 visits.
We are working closely with the judiciary to ensure that.The report is effectively a screening and flagging up of issues that the Scottish Prison Service will find useful when it determines how to work with someone who is in custody.
Not only were families that were in crisis visited by social workers—there were enough social workers in those days to visit the families regularly—but family aids would go in and carry out basic home care, budgeting-type tasks, child care, playing with children and that kind of stuff.
Conditions are made more severe by the increase in overcrowding, and its impacts on staffing mean that family visits are being curtailed. Such visits are an important aspect of prisoners' lives and, vitally, of their rehabilitation.
Before I close the meeting, I thank everybody who has been involved in a successful visit to Kirkcudbright. That includes all the Parliament staff, including the official report and everybody who has put together this visit and helped us with sound.
The writers factory initiative was launched following a feasibility study and is a project by the Scottish Arts Council, Scottish Enterprise and Scottish Screen to develop commercial writing skills.