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Policing and prosecuting a new offence in Scotland
We have referred elsewhere in the report the question of how the relationship between individuals involved in prostitution and the police might be changed by a new offence.
I am quite worried about the figures for consultant, nursing and midwife vacancies. Exhibit 6 on page 26 shows that there has been an 87 per cent increase over the past year in vacancies that are open for six months or more.
Amendment 8 separately provides for guidance in respect of the new provisions that the bill introduces as new section 14(5C) of the 2001 act, which provides that landlords must provide “advice and assistance” to the perpetrator and any “qualifying occupier in relation to the finding of alternative accommodation”.