Footnotes
1.The Children (Scotland) Act 1995 gives local authorities a duty to "safeguard and promote the welfare" of children in need in their area
2. An Act that consolidated, inter alia, the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act of earlier the same year
3. SCRA Child and Vulnerable Witness Pack.
4. Annex B, Plotnikoff & Woolfson (2001)
5. Many of these points have been addressed through the new disclosure rules.
6. Malmö Police Department, personal communication, 19.06.06
7. These are simply small areas; the index is based on small area statistics, with areas smaller than wards or postcode areas, including roughly 750 people in each
8. See SIMD map http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/simd2004/map.asp
9. It is based on 31 indicators in the six areas of Current Income, Employment, Housing, Health, Education, Skills and Training and Geographic Access to Services and Telecommunications
10. SCS, Personal communication, 17.03.06
11. NSG/Strathclyde Family Protection Policy Unit written submission 16.06.06
12. Dundee City Council Social Work Department and Dundee Children and Young Persons Protection Committee written submission, 15 June 2006
13. It came to light in the evaluation that during the 2005 G8 meeting, Baird Street could not be used for a while and interviews were conducted in the child's place of residence
14. t = 0.15, p>0.1
15. chi squared = 1.33, p>0.1
16. Dundee City Council Social Work Department and Dundee Children and Young Persons Protection Committee written submission, 15 June 2006
17. Ibid.
18. Which include autistic learning disorders, social and emotional difficulties and moderate learning difficulties
19. Tayside Police, written submission, 20.06.06
20. Panel members are detailed in annex 2 and included sheriffs, solicitors, advocates, procurators fiscal, children's reporters and an academic social work teaching fellow
21. The need for a technician role generally is discussed at the end of this chapter and in the final chapter on costs
22. Research advisory group written submission, 17.05.06
23. Strathclyde police, personal communication 24.05.06
24. chi-squared = 1.59, p>0.1
25. chi-squared = 5.23, p<0.05
26. Dundee City Council Social Work Department and Dundee Children and Young Persons Protection Committee written submission, 15 June 2006
27. The definition of serious crime includes: murder, culpable homicide & drug related deaths; serious & series sexual offences; and serious violence.
28. While one of the defence agents was experienced in children's hearing cases, most of that agent's comments - and all of the others' - focussed on criminal work as that was where they thought it was most relevant.
29. The SCRA child witness pack contains guidance for reporters on interviewing children and their roles throughout legal proceedings ( SCRA, undated).
30. Personal communication, minutes of meetings, 19.04.05 and 29.06.05
31. As chapter 2 outlined, in England & Wales the Pigot proposals for visually recording a pre-trial hearing at which any pre-recorded statement may also be played are to be pursued, in place of the YJCE Act's provisions for video-recorded cross-examination. In some other jurisdictions recorded 'cross examination' can effectively take place before the trial through the defence being able to put questions to the child during the investigative interview stages
32. RAG written submission, March 2006
33. ACPOS, personal communication, 17.05.06
34. RAG written submission, March 2006