Gil Paterson MSP

  • Home
  • Press
  • BIO
  • Contact
  • Surgeries
  • Blog
  • Privacy
  • EU Nationals
  • Home
  • Press
  • BIO
  • Contact
  • Surgeries
  • Blog
  • Privacy
  • EU Nationals

Gil questions government on early childhood offending monitoring 

8/12/2016

Comments

 
Picture
Mark McDonald MSP
GIL Paterson MSP has questioned the Scottish Government on risk management of young people who have demonstrated harmful behaviour. 

​Gil Paterson (Clydebank and Milngavie) (SNP): 
Can the minister give any further detail on the arrangements that will be put in place to ensure that there is monitoring and risk management of young people who have demonstrated harmful behaviour in early childhood offending and who continue to cause concern as they become adults?

Mark McDonald: 
Children can and do change—that is fundamental to the Scottish concept of social education and our reintegrative model. As I outlined in my statement, we need a system that reflects that and furthers our approach to addressing needs as well as deeds. For young people who are nearing their 18th birthday, appropriate plans should be in place to manage risks and we should ensure that those plans are shared with all the relevant agencies that have responsibility for supporting them and managing any potential risks. That happens currently.

Additional safeguards will be put in place for a young person moving into young adulthood whose behaviour has been assessed as continuing to be a source of serious concern and in relation to whom compulsory risk management measures are considered necessary and proportionate. That is our starting principle, and work on that will be progressed as the legislation is drafted.
Comments

    Author

    This page is no longer updated as Mr Paterson has left the Scottish Parliament. Please consider this a record of his achievements and efforts to fight ofr the people of Clydebank, Milngavie and Bearsden North, as well as the people of Scotland.

    Archives

    February 2021
    September 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
Photos used under Creative Commons from Andy Hay, Rab,, steevithak, blondinrikard, Ninian Reid, NIAID