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As a result, we focused on putting things right. Indeed, that was the best that we could do for 2003-04, which was the year that lay immediately ahead of us.
That working group has drawn up a fairly extensive work plan of good practice and guidance to allow us to consider best practice. We are working on completing some leaflets for tenants who are considering exercising the right to buy.
We have been delivering training based on that publication as best we can. We have provided training to organisations such as the Scottish Rugby Union, the Church of Scotland and the Roman Catholic Church, to help them to develop their own child protection policies, including recruitment and selection procedures and so on.
I acknowledge that other councils are examples of best practice. West Lothian Council was praised in last year's Audit Scotland report, which recognised the council's clear commitment to best value in community planning.
However, it is important that we, as legislators, put in place the best framework to deal with it and we must ask ourselves whether amendment 148 is the best route that is open to us.
I am certain that all the staff in both systems are committed to doing their best. The real issue is whether the staff in a private prison have the capability and the tools—as they do in the public sector—to do their best.