Group to consider criminal age test

Ministers plan to set up a group to consider if the age of criminal responsibility should be increased beyond 12 – the age proposed by the Scottish Government in legislation going through Holyrood.

A special forum is being proposed to consider the issue, children’s minister Maree Tood confirmed.

She announced the move three months after SNP MSPS voted against increasing the age at which children can be help responsible for their actions in the courts to either 14 or 16.