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A sample of prisoners are tested for a range of illegal substances—annually, on reception into and on liberation from prison, as well as during their time in prison—to assess drug use.
On whether more could be done at national level, I think that more could be done to promulgate best practice in the 32 local authorities. We are all receptive to sharing experience. We want to hear about what is working in the Borders, whether it can be transferred to Aberdeen and so on.
However, the issue often is—as we will show at our reception tomorrow night—that those projects are funded for the short term and dependent on funding coming from a number of pots and that there is no wish to fund them long enough for them to be able to show the impact of what they do.
We must remember that the young people who are accommodated in the care system do not come in without baggage—they come with a history of experiences that sometimes, as we have heard, do not equip them to be receptive to care and support, particularly when that is planned and structured and includes discipline and boundaries.Such young people often prefer t...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 December 2008
The Minister then travelled to Toronto, Canada, where she visited Guelph University which has strong educational links with Scotland. She also attended a reception organised by VisitScotland and SDI.
What kind of response to the business case have you had from the Scottish Government, and how receptive is it to your pleas? Again, I will start and then hand to Michael Cameron, who is actively involved in these discussions with Scottish Government officials.
However, this is not a time when private sector care homes, for example, would be receptive to a consultation on the further extension of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
In Clackmannanshire, we are speaking to our housing association, because we thought that that would be easy to target. It has been quite receptive to our installing infrastructure on its land.
The debate on Marie Curie’s great daffodil appeal has become an annual event; it is accompanied by an annual reception, which is always great. I have not done this before but, this year, I want to thank Richard Meade of Marie Curie’s central office for all the work that he does to make sure that the appeal takes place every year.