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I have no doubt that for short-term and long-term prisoners, family contact—when appropriate and when other circumstances do not apply—is humane and crucial to rehabilitation.
There is a desire to have an open discussion, to keep people apprised of what is taking place and to listen to them. There will be an online forum for creative Scotland, which I think is about to open and which will allow people to comment on and take part in the process.
With respect to other systems, it is possible that people who go online to look for solutions—as is perhaps being done in England and Wales—could end up with the wrong solutions.
We should be trying to get people to buy into that. In parallel with that, people are complaining about the increase in the price of diesel and petrol.
Those problems cannot be reduced simply by buying a new pram, even for people who have the money to do so.The mums in the group are asking for a commonsense approach.
We must ensure that everybody is aware that they have a duty of care not only to local authorities, but to residents who buy into estates. Those are constructive suggestions.