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Victim Support Scotland's grant amounts to around £30 per victim contacted in Scotland, compared with £10 in England and Wales.There are two further issues.
Why don't you contact SPICe?" That was not helpful. In the end, I was told by an individual in the Executive library that they had tried to locate a contact in the Health Department who might be able to help but had been unable to do so.
Obviously, there are issues that relate clearly to the fiscal service, as the prosecution service has the greatest contact with victims and witnesses—it meets and precognoses them.
I am acutely conscious from my involvement in Highland Council, and from representing the Highlands and Islands, that bridges are fundamental to keeping communities in contact with one another, because of the nature of the area's geography.
Although it is in its nascent stage, its intention is to provide support to individual prosecutors; to have a network of contacts; and to have an exchange of evidence.