She urged consideration of how the Bill will add to current protection for different forms of child abuse, saying, “People in our study felt that they were being identified because they were Muslim and African, regardless of any established level of risk to their children.”Official Report, 12 September, col.11
However, Neil Hunter, Principal Reporter, Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA), said, “We are well aware that abuse and exploitation of children and young people happens across the community” and therefore the SCRA take “a broad, generic approach to the issues of child abuse, child exploitation and child-related harms rather than focusing on particular groups or particular subsections of the community.”Official Report, 10 October, col.32
Gillian Mawdsley, Policy Executive, Law Society of Scotland, said that equality and diversity are “a key part of much of legal training…that is followed all the way through legal careers.”Official Report, 10 October, col.32 Anne Marie...