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We have social workers in prison, and either housing officers visit people in prison or prisoners are allowed out to visit housing officers before they are released.
As well as the project in Grampian, there is the West Lothian criminal justice project, which, as we were told on our visit to Linlithgow sheriff court, has been very successful in getting people into court more quickly.
However, we are regularly in touch with boards and their developments and we often visit the facilities for which they have said that they will use the money.
I refer, for example, to the current extension of the docklands light railway in London to the airport and other parts of docklands, which is predicated on speculation about future development.In your submission you refer to the situation in Nottingham. You may know that the committee visited Nottingham as part of its background work.
We have developed that by taking our group and the workers who support group representatives on visits to Polmont and Cornton Vale. That was worth while and was most beneficial at our meeting after the visits, as everyone had an input.