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This year, the additional challenge of Covid-19 has taken the service to breaking point, with many people unable to travel. That is unacceptable—it damages the economy and blights lives.
It often means the minimum age of prosecution or an age that provides protection from explicitly punitive sentences. In many countries, children of all ages can be subject to the various interferences of the criminal justice system, bar prosecution.
Will she consider how the national towns of culture programme will focus on, and can help us to address, the stark economic and regional inequalities that are still faced by too many communities, particularly in the west of Scotland?
Although social distancing—or physical distancing, as it might now be better described—is one of the most important measures that many of us are looking at, it is just one of many features in a suite of measures that it is important we consider.
An important change that has taken place is that more and more young people are having a broader range of needs identified, many of which will be supported within the mainstream education system.
As we work through the detail of that and what we anticipate will happen, additional costs might be identified for this or the coming financial year, so we are working with Derek Mackay so that we take as many precautions and make as many anticipatory planning decisions as we can.