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Should people of that age go through the children's hearings system or should they go to the adult courts system? We had an online vote on our website this week. It was decided that we would prefer a juvenile court, which would be a halfway house between the children's panel and the adult court.
However, although the reply was drafted in the rural affairs department and signed off by me as minister last November, it did not percolate through the Scottish Executive and Parliament system until 26 September this year. I hope that those procedures have been slightly improved.
The order also provides for the transfer of days between vessels and it provides for derogations that release more than 320 Scottish vessels from restrictions in their days at sea when using certain fishing gear.
A publication is in preparation—it will be published on 26 November—which looks across the suite of inspections that we have undertaken in the first three years of our work for SFEFC.
Such cases, which are frightening to manage, are a concern for all of us. The other side of the coin is that in certain areas of Scotland, such as Glasgow, there is a significant shortage of social workers, particularly in child care.
I was in the Justice 1 Committee at the time, but the wonderful play-it-again resource on the BBC website allowed me to go back and listen to it later—the internet truly is a wonderful thing.