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The conditions in the two halls that we visited are as bad as those in the halls that we visited at Barlinnie prison.It is worth talking about some of the statistics that we uncovered during our visit on the factors that lead to youth offending.
They asked us not to take action on the absentee in question, who was valued in the community, visited it regularly and so on. It is difficult to address such situations through regulation.
This frustrates the risk assessment process and impedes the proper monitoring and supervision of those offenders.Both the Irving and the Cosgrove reports have emphasised the value of visiting sex offenders at home to gather information for conducting a risk assessment.
There may be guidance on the number of patients that a general practitioner can have, but is there guidance about that for nurses? That is precisely the kind of territory that the work-load report went into.
I accept everything that the minister says, but I refer to what was said earlier: the police already have the powers to address the problem.I accept that all the communities that were visited said that they wanted the power of dispersal.