- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 January 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 19 February 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to the Royal Blind Asylum and School since 2019.
Answer
The Royal Blind School receives annual grant funding from the Scottish Government, which is used to support the direct delivery of specialist education and care provision for children and young people with complex additional support needs, including those with visual impairment. The key recurring grant objectives set out for the school in their annual grant letters since 2019-20 are:
- Provide high quality education and / or care to the children and young people who attend the Royal Blind School and Sight Scotland education outreach services.
- Continue to develop the delivery of peripatetic support to local authorities, children and young people with visual impairment.
- Identify collaboratively, the development objectives with all pupils, staff and stakeholders.
- Evidence and maintain the Royal Blind School’s leading position and its value to the provision and enhancement of good practice in education, learning and care for school age children with Visual Impairment and particularly those with complex additional support needs.
- Ensure the ongoing viability of the school, continue to be committed to attracting and developing alternative sources of income through commercial activity and partnership working.
- Improve and develop partnership opportunities with all stakeholders of the Royal Blind School.
- In addition to the core objectives set out above, two further objectives were set within specific years. These were not recurring objectives and were met within the years set.
- Throughout 2020-21 implement the actions/activities in the School Improvement Plan to ensure children and young people who attend the Royal Blind School receive high quality education and care.
- To continue to develop and operate the Learning Hub in order to provide support to local authorities, children and young people with visual impairment and their families and other agencies with visual impairment across Scotland; and provide by 31 March 2020 an evaluation of progress in the 2019-20 outcomes report.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 February 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Emma Roddick on 19 February 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Community Project Limited since 2019.
Answer
There is no record of funding being provided by the Scottish Government to the “Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Community Project Limited” since 2019.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 February 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Emma Roddick on 19 February 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to LGBT Youth Scotland since 2019.
Answer
To support work on advancing LGBTQI+ Equality, the Scottish Government provides funding to organisations such as LGBT Youth Scotland to promote equality of opportunity and inclusion for LGBTQI+ people.
The following table contains the funding and objectives for this funding provided to LGBT Youth Scotland since 2019.
Fund | Objectives |
EQUALITY BUDGET FUNDING: 1 JULY 2019 – 30 JUNE 2020 | - A reduction in discrimination against people who share protected characteristics
- Reduced levels of hate crime
- Increased community participation, engagement and community cohesion
- Addressing imbalances in representation in all aspects and levels of public life
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EQUALITY BUDGET FUNDING – VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS: 1 JULY 2019 – 30 JUNE 2020 | - Societal understanding of gender based violence is increased and tolerance of it is decreased (leading to a reduction in violence and abuse experienced by women and children, and an increase in positive gender norms and expectations)
- Service providers have increased understanding of all forms of gender based violence, and work effectively together to address these issues through the provision of appropriate, high quality services
- The harmful effects of gender based violence experienced by women and children are reduced by early intervention and their safety and wellbeing needs are better met by effective service provision
- Interventions, service design and service delivery are improved as a result of the participation of women and children affected by gender based violence
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COVID-19 SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND: 2020-21 | - To support vulnerable individuals and those in need, to help communities respond to the needs and challenges they are experiencing, and protect the wellbeing of the people of Scotland.
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EQUALITY BUDGET FUNDING, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS: 1 JULY 2020 – 30 SEPTEMBER 2021 | - Societal understanding of gender based violence is increased and tolerance of it is decreased (leading to a reduction in violence and abuse experienced by women and children, and an increase in positive gender norms and expectations)
- Service providers have increased understanding of all forms of gender based violence, and work effectively together to address these issues through the provision of appropriate, high quality services
- The harmful effects of gender based violence experienced by women and children are reduced by early intervention and their safety and wellbeing needs are better met by effective service provision
- Interventions, service design and service delivery are improved as a result of the participation of women and children affected by gender based violence
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EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS FUND: 1 OCTOBER 2021-30 SEPTEMBER 2024 | - People have greater awareness of their human rights and how to access them;
- People with protected characteristics have increased access to remedy where their rights have not been upheld
- People with protected characteristics have increased participation in public life;
- People with protected characteristics have increased influence in decisions that affect them;
- Actors in civil society increasingly use Scotland’s domestic and international equality and human rights framework to influence and effect change
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EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS FUND: 1 OCTOBER 2022-31 MARCH 2023 1 APRIL 2023-31 MARCH 2024 | - People have greater awareness of their human rights and how to access them;
- People with protected characteristics have increased participation in public life;
- People with protected characteristics have increased influence in decisions that affect them;
- The Scottish Government has better access to data and depth of information about the experiences of people with protected characteristics;
- Public services increasingly embed equality and human rights in their strategic planning and their day-to-day functions
- The experience of people with protected characteristics is increasingly used to inform the policy and practice of public bodies
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DELIVERING EQUALLY SAFE: OCTOBER 2021 – SEPTEMBER 2023 DELIVERING EQUALLY SAFE: 1 OCTOBER 2022 – 31 MARCH 2023 DELIVERING EQUALLY SAFE: 1 APRIL 2023 – 31 MARCH 2024 | - Women and children affected by violence are identified (early)
- Women and children’s safety needs are met
- Women and children’s wider wellbeing needs are met
- Fewer people adhere to gender stereotypes
- People have increased understanding of all forms of VAWG (causes, consequences, and appropriate responses)
- Power, decision-making and material resources are distributed more equally between men and women.
- Tolerance of VAWG is reduced and people are more likely to recognise and challenge it
- Perpetrators are identified early
- Perpetrators are supported to change their behaviour
- Perpetrators are sanctioned / held to account
- Violence against women and girls is reduced / eradicated
- Negative impacts on women and children who have been affected by violence are reduced / eradicated
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- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 February 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Emma Roddick on 16 February 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it provided to Dornoch and District Christian Fellowship since 2019.
Answer
The Dornoch and District Christian Fellowship has not received Scottish Government funding since 2019.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 February 2024
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 22 February 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of its current relationship with local authorities.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 22 February 2024
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 February 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenni Minto on 14 February 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to the Barbara Koerner Memorial Trust since 2019.
Answer
The Scottish Government has not provided funding to the Barbara Koerner Memorial Trust
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 January 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Emma Roddick on 12 February 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to Diversitay since 2019.
Answer
Diversitay has not received Scottish Government funding since 2019.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 January 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Emma Roddick on 12 February 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to the National Prayer Breakfast for Scotland since 2019.
Answer
The National Prayer Breakfast has not received Scottish Government funding since 2019.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 January 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Emma Roddick on 12 February 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to the Centre for Inclusive Living Perth and Kinross since 2019.
Answer
The Centre for Inclusive Living Perth and Kinross has not received Scottish Government funding since 2019.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 January 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 12 February 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to The Poverty Alliance since 2019.
Answer
The Scottish Government has provided The Poverty Alliance with funding to support a number of initiatives aimed at ensuring that the insights of people who have lived experienced of poverty inform policy and delivery. This is in addition to funding for the Living Wage Scotland Accreditation and Recognition Project which aims to increase the number of workers in Scotland receiving a pay increase to the real Living Wage, increase the number of Living Hours accredited employers, support policy development and grow the Living Wage movement.
Additional payments were also made to procure the development of guidance, venue hire and catering, travel expenses and the delivery of workshops.
Due to the volume of information, full detail of objectives for grant funding from 2019 onwards has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre under Bib. number 64875.
