Labour's Johann Lamont returned to the topic of health service provision while Ruth Davidson of the Conservatives concentrated upon community payback orders.

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The youth-offender teams would supervise a range of new punishments, including reparation orders obliging children to confront the victims of their crimes or to perform community service in recompense.

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As well as community service and probation, other non-custodial penalties in Scotland include electronic tagging and drug treatment and testing orders.

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