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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.
The guidelines are, as I said, not written in stone, but they reflect most practitioners' views of current best practice and of what is best for children in that age group.
One constituency supplementary question fits best here. As Nicola Sturgeon said, the tragic murder of Angelika Kluk has shocked all people in Scotland and has had a serious impact on the community that I represent.
I suggest that those questions would be best answered by the Scottish Prison Service, which has undertaken to update the committee from time to time on these matters.