Each year more than 20,000 children in Scotland have to deal with a parent going to prison. Labour proposed special assessments to be carried out to help these youngsters. Even though SNP MSPs on Holyrood's Justice Committee rejected the call for child and family impact assessments to be carried out, Labour MSP Mary Fee's amendment was passed by the committee, and now forms part of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill going through the Scottish Parliament. Labour leader Kezia Dugdale was concerned that the SNP could use its majority to remove the bill at a later stage and urged the First Minister to ‘do the right thing’ and instruct her MSPs to back it. Ms Sturgeon told her, ‘I can assure parliament we will give full consideration to the amendment that was passed and will consider whether or not that amendment meets our objective to help the children of those sent to prison.’