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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.
The convener and I met Commissioner Hübner when she visited the Parliament. She spoke of the success of the Scottish model and the high regard in which it is held across Europe.
I am the employment service manager for Hansel Alliance, which is a voluntary organisation in Ayrshire. We enjoyed your visit earlier this year, convener. We enjoyed the visit too.
If we prevent one family from having to visit a grave and another family from having to go to Barlinnie or Polmont for the next 10 years to visit their teenage son, the bill will have been a success.
We know that our front-line reception staff deal with 90 per cent more callers, which means that our backroom staff—they are more appropriately described as home-visiting and community-based staff—are doing the job that is important to them.
A series of seminars and presentations have been held and there have been visits to various local areas. A great deal of work is going on.Mary Scanlon asked about staffing.
I should mention the young people who gave evidence when the committee visited Hamilton. They put their case across clearly and concisely and assisted us greatly in understanding how young people had been affected.