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We need to examine our legislation. There are so many contradictions in Scottish legislation about who is a child and where their needs can be best met, which is why we have so many children in the adult courts system.
Rather than what you would expect in a quiet neighbourhood in Ayr on a Monday night, it was comparable to a war scene. For many hours, nobody knew what had happened or how many people had been injured.
With the Nordic model, we see that, in many cases, sex workers become de facto criminalised through other policing measures, which is why I am against increasing criminalisation around commercial sex.
We recognise the concerns behind PE2017 and consider that this is an important area of health policy and practice which is of real interest to many members of the public, patients and their families as well as health and social care professionals.
It has also taken years of hard work to build up many of the student services and student associations, whose ability to support students fully is being placed at risk.