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We anticipate that further guidance to that effect will be published in the next few days. The discussion is very live and we are working with Government officials.
Evidence to the committee shows that families can struggle to deal with the demands of living with someone who is on a home detention curfew or electronic monitoring.
For example, on the one hand, we have the human right to protect family life, which is absolutely right; on the other hand, we want to extradite certain people who have not lived up to our standards when they have lived in our country.
Grace also wrote to me, and I was able to arrange meetings for her with the independent living in Scotland project and the Scottish Disability Equality Forum, both of which have taken up her campaign.
Obviously local authority cuts will have an impact too. We live in a country where not only food banks but clothing banks are springing up in our towns and cities.