She said that, overall, the justice system was not currently good at getting abusers to address their offending behaviour.xivJustice Committee, Official Report, 13 June,col. 25
The submission from NSPCC Scotland commented that "perpetrator programmes/ services are often working with people "long after the effect": endeavouring to address behaviours that have become entrenched over many, many years".iiWritten submission
The Cabinet Secretary responded to the evidence the Committee had heard on offender programmes that more could be done to make programmes available but that he was "confident that we have a broad spread of programmes across the country".xviJustice Committee, Official Report, 27 June, col. 25.