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Gang-related Activity (Young People) To ask the Scottish Government what steps the justice secretary is taking to prevent young people from becoming involved in gang-related activity.
After-school Clubs and Out-of-term Activities (Access) To ask the Scottish Government how it is supporting local authorities to ensure that school children from disadvantaged communities have access to after-school clubs and other activities outside of the school term.
It is not just a commitment of a year or two. Getting a project through is a commitment lasting years: the community needs to work up the financial and investment side, get the project through planning, and then run it.
The whole ethos of our organisation is helping people to get things to which they are entitled and not putting in place barriers to their getting those things.
Accountability for that does not necessary go through Government, and that is where the audit agencies get involved, given that councils and councillors have to get their accounts signed off.
You touched on the subject, but with the easing of lockdown restrictions, what has been the position on prisoners getting more time out of cells, purposeful activity and so on?