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The Committee notes that best estimates as to the costs to the prison service set out in the Financial MemorandumixAt paragraph 52 are based on an assumption that disposals in relation to the new offence will follow a similar pattern to current disposals in relation to domestic abuse cases, although this may not turn out to be the case in practice.
r=10879&c=1989311Finally, as we shall see in the section that follows on the role of solicitors in the system, the suggestion that there should be more multi-agency training across the different professions involved was a common feature of the evidence we took.
In June, the Scottish Government published forecasts that went past 2020. We are asking the Government, as it believes that the reductions are too fast and too deep, to tell us what would not be.
The Bill is colloquially known as the “Promise Bill”. In 2020 the Scottish Government promised that “all children in Scotland will grow up feeling loved, safe and respected”, and the Government promised to achieve this by implementing the conclusions of the Independent Care Review by 2030.