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It said that "there is strong evidence on the value of supporting family contact in promoting good behaviour and reducing tensions in prison, encouraging reintegration back into family life on liberation, and laying the groundwork for successful rehabilitation."3HMIPS. (2019).
The purpose of the Bill is to reform how the state provides information on individuals' past behaviour, typically in situations when an individual is seeking employment or volunteering.
We heard the victim would not be entitled to detailed information about what had happened to the person thought to have caused harmful behaviour, neither would they have any access to information about the circumstances of that child (e.g. whether they were experiencing neglect, subject to domestic abuse etc).iiWritten submission, Community Justice Scotland...
Often, they explained, this was due to the way in which incidents were handled, rather than on account of these children and young people being more likely to become involved in harmful behaviour.
Who Cares? Scotland highlighted many of these incidents could be low-level in nature, but had a significant impact on a child or young person’s life chances.
The Home Secretary must be satisfied that the following conditions have been met:
the other person involved in the conduct constituting the offence consented to it and was aged 16 or over; and
any such conduct now would not be an offence under section 71 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (sexual activity in a public lavatory)
The aim of these two conditions is to ensure that the only convictions disregarded are those for behaviour...
It felt that they found our approach slightly offensive, in that they didn’t question the need to spend that money to provide people with the connectivity and services that they needed.” – Rhoda Grant MSP 75.