So, Audit Scotland has produced a report, which suggests that the £100 million that the Scottish Executive has spent on trying to tackle youth crime and anti-social behaviour has made no difference. "The impact on the improved services and outcomes is not yet demonstrated and limited progress has been made over the last five years on taking forward several key recommendations from our earlier reports," say the report's authors.
Significantly, Labour Deputy Leader Cathy Jamieson, who was the Executive’s Justice Minister at the time and presided over the expenditure of the cash on, amongst other things, 500 additional youth social workers, reportedly “declined to comment on the report, arguing it was the job of politicians to look forward rather than back.”
Significantly, Labour Deputy Leader Cathy Jamieson, who was the Executive’s Justice Minister at the time and presided over the expenditure of the cash on, amongst other things, 500 additional youth social workers, reportedly “declined to comment on the report, arguing it was the job of politicians to look forward rather than back.”
A comment befitting of a politician who is herself a trained social worker.
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