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As I mentioned earlier, we have had really helpful feedback from pupil support staff, who have lived experience of the post, on what we can do to improve the system.
Now, if the board were to consider rerelease on parole licence and decide not to recommend it, there would be two live decisions of the board extant: the original decision to recommend release and the new decision not to recommend release.
It is important that the Parliament has a constructive engagement with people’s longer-term strategic thinking about how Scotland and our young people can grow, develop and flourish in the quite febrile world that they are living in and will continue to live in.
It will take a much wider look at the financial position, at service delivery challenges, at how the NHS will remobilise its services, at living with and beyond Covid, and so forth.
I have been enthusiastic about the certification scheme, including the fact that it is limited to what I would call extra activities or things that are not a major part of people’s lives. That has been a good way to deal with it.
It would be very hard to do that for any individual citizen, and it is particularly hard to do it for people who are living quite complex lifestyles, sometimes bordering on the chaotic.
What happened to the rule of thumb of maximum detention? We are talking about young lives possibly being ruined because people have been stuck in prison cells awaiting their trial for two or maybe even three years.
Planning has such an important role to play, because we have a choice with every planning application—do we improve how our communities live and work together or hinder that in a way that increases or reduces emissions?
Do we honestly believe that in an independent Scotland we could not afford to pay for 3,500 disabled people to live full and independent lives? I do not think that that is what we believe.
Questions and Answers
Date lodged:
10 December 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what support it is providing to the thousands of children who will be living in temporary and unsuitable accommodation over the Christmas period.