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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.
We are considering amending the order to prevent the routine out-of-area placement of other groups of vulnerable people unless an exceptional circumstance applies, as defined in the order.
Secondly, we asked the Executive why the wording inserted by regulations 4(2) and 4(3) into schedules 1 and 2 to the principal regulations does not—unlike the existing paragraphs of those schedules—make specific reference to "excepted student" and "excepted candidate" respectively.
The first is international co-operation in research and technical assistance and the second is comparative studies. We do not need to reinvent the wheel in Scotland.
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.
I, for one, will take advantage of it to visit the Ardverikie estate, better known from "Monarch of the Glen", which has broadcast its 36,000 acres of beautiful Scottish scenery.