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Education, Children and Young People Committee
Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 22 March 2023
Stephen Kerr
That is fair enough, but how about your own experience?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 22 March 2023
Stephen Kerr
An aim of the bill is to improve the experience and outcomes when children come into the justice system, one way or another. What aspects of the bill will make a positive impact in relation to that objective?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 22 March 2023
Stephen Kerr
Thank you. Does Katy Nisbet wish to respond?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 22 March 2023
Stephen Kerr
Will you expand on “welfare based” and “child based”? Will you explain what that approach does?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 22 March 2023
Stephen Kerr
You mentioned the University of Edinburgh study. Are you content that 18 is the right age?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 22 March 2023
Stephen Kerr
No, I think that the answers on the legal definition are complete.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 22 March 2023
Stephen Kerr
Will those things improve a child’s chances of not reoffending and of sorting their life out and getting themselves together again?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 22 March 2023
Stephen Kerr
I ask Alistair Hogg the same set of questions.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 22 March 2023
Stephen Kerr
That is clear. Does Alistair Hogg want to comment?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 22 March 2023
Stephen Kerr
We will start with one of the principal issues in the bill, in the minds of many people, which is the definition of a “child”. What are your thoughts about the change that is proposed? What is your experience that leads you to conclude one way or another about the age of 18?
