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It was a bit of a false start for the local venture as a result of COVID-19, but now a new food van set to hit the road offering the community more than a delicious meal

File photo dated 07/11/03 of a door being closed by a prison guard. The number of times young offenders have been locked up on their own has increased dramatically over the past four years, despite the overall number of children being detained falling, a YOUNG offenders should be supported with consistent and comprehensive support to help them reintegrate from custody into society, a conference has been told. Young people serving their sentence at a young offender institution need to be eq...

© Shutterstock / OneSideProFoto Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A new project to support offenders leaving prison is intended to help drive down Dundee’s shocking rate of drug deaths. A Scottish Drug Deaths Taskforce was set up to tackle the issue after the country recorded the highest rate in Europe. It has made funding available to provide one-to-one support for offenders leaving prison in Dundee, which ...