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We have allocated GAE provision of £12.32 million and £12.38 million for the years 2005-07.

This funding is not ring-fenced.

The Scottish Executive, alongwith the UK Government is committed to eradicating child poverty within a generation.The Executive’s Closing the Opportunity Gap approach to tackling poverty works bothdirectly and indirectly across all its departments, and within numerous spendingstreams. Universal services such as health, education and child care benefit allchildren, with an emphasis on meeting the needs of the most vulnerable. Expendituretargeted on areas of deprivation such as the Community Regeneration Fund also hasan impact on children. A number of funding streams are specifically directed atdisadvantaged children such as Sure Start funding. The range of spending that hasan impact on children in poverty means it is not possible to give a total figurefor previous or future years.

No. This is a complex issue andwe do not think the calculation would be meaningful.

Estimates on the full range ofincome thresholds and explanation of how these estimates are calculated are publishedin Households Below Average Income, 1994-95 – 2002-03, copies of which areavailable in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 32212).

The following table presents the number and proportion of children living in low income households in Scotland from 1996-97 to 2002-03. Figures are produced annually and estimates for 2003-04 are not yet available. Estimates are available at Scotland level only, not by local authority area.

Proportion and Number of Children in Low Income Households, Below 60% of GB Median Income After Housing Costs, Scotland

	Absolute				Relative
	Before Housing Costs		After Housing Costs		Before Housing Costs		After Housing Costs
	%	Numbers	%	Numbers	%	Numbers	%	Numbers
	Thousands
1996-97	30	330	34	380	30	330	34	380
1997-98	27	300	30	330	29	310	31	340
1998-99	26	290	29	320	27	300	31	340
1999-2000	20	220	24	260	24	260	28	310
2000-01	18	190	21	230	25	260	30	320
2001-02	14	140	16	170	25	260	30	320
2002-03	12	130	16	170	23	240	27	280

 

The key low income results, above,are for 60% of both the relative and absolute GB median thresholds. Estimates onthe full range of income thresholds and explanation of how these estimates are calculatedare published in Households Below Average Income, 1994-95 – 2002-03, copiesof which are available in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 32212).

The relative low income measurecompares against the median of the same year. The absolute measure compares againstthe median in the baseline year of 1996-97, uprated to remove the effects of inflation.The figures are estimates based on a sample survey and are therefore subject tosampling variation. As such, small percentage changes are not significant when consideredon a year-on-year basis; identification of trends should be based on several yearsof data.

All children should achieve totheir full potential at school and we have a wide ranging programme in Ambitious,Excellent, Schools to help them do so.

Disclosure Scotland deals with applications in date order as they are received with no distinction as to the level of check requested.

Following the delays of last year, Disclosure Scotland has revised its process and introduced new technology to ensure that it operates as quickly as possible. Processing performance is monitored on a daily basis. This allows Disclosure Scotland to react quickly to any deficit between receipts and issues so that its service level target of issuing certificates for 90% of valid applications within 14 working days can be maintained.

The numbers of staff employed since Disclosure Scotland was established in April 2002 are set out in the table. The numbers include staff employed by British Telecommunications plc and the Scottish Criminal Record Office who operate the service in partnership on behalf of Scottish ministers.

Year	Full-Time	Part-Time	Temporary	Total
April 2002	47	0.5	0	47.5
April 2003	72	13.4	0	85.4
April 2004	108	33.5	52	193.5
December 2004	100	26.5	24	150.5

 

This information is not held centrally and is an operational matter for the Chief Constable of Lothian and Borders Police.

NHS treatment for unintentional injuries may be provided in a number of health settings including general practice, accident and emergency departments and as an inpatient in a hospital. Data available nationally at a level of detail that would allow the place of the injury (e.g. home) to be identified are only available for those patients admitted as an inpatient to a hospital. In general, it is likely that patients admitted to hospital will have a more serious injury than those treated in general practice or within accident and emergency departments.

Information on the number of those admitted as an inpatient to hospital in the period 2003-04 by council area is shown in the following table. Information split by council ward area is not held centrally.

Table 1. Number of Emergency In-Patient Hospital Admissions as a Result of anUnintentional Injury by Council Area, Year Ending 31 March 2004¹

Council Area		Home	All
Injuries2	Injuries3	%
Total	16,676	60,339	27.6
1	Aberdeen City	1,031	3,529	29.2
2	Aberdeenshire	864	3,015	28.7
3	Angus	376	1,092	34.4
4	Argyll and Bute	371	1,383	26.8
5	Scottish Borders	461	1,075	42.9
6	Clackmannanshire	220	519	42.4
7	West Dunbartonshire	169	1,264	13.4
8	Dumfries and Galloway	526	1,198	43.9
9	Dundee City	609	1,824	33.4
10	East Ayrshire	599	1,802	33.2
11	East Dunbartonshire	148	914	16.2
12	East Lothian	161	752	21.4
13	East Renfrewshire	248	868	28.6
14	Edinburgh, City of	946	3,700	25.6
15	Falkirk	558	1,363	40.9
16	Fife	1,140	3,193	35.7
17	Glasgow City	1,269	8,390	15.1
18	Highland	1,084	3,527	30.7
19	Inverclyde	327	1,253	26.1
20	Midlothian	190	673	28.2
21	Moray	361	937	38.5
22	North Ayrshire	602	1,961	30.7
23	North Lanarkshire	849	3,703	22.9
24	Orkney Islands	163	357	45.7
25	Perth and Kinross	588	1,664	35.3
26	Renfrewshire	322	2,265	14.2
27	Shetland Islands	52	223	23.3
28	South Ayrshire	673	1,657	40.6
29	South Lanarkshire	763	3,376	22.6
30	Stirling	395	934	42.3
31	West Lothian	461	1,619	28.5
32	Eilean Siar	150	309	48.5

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Source: ISD Scotland (SMR01).

Notes:

1. These statistics are derived from data collected on discharges from non-obstetric and non-psychiatric hospitals (SMR01) in Scotland.

2. Home injuries are identified using SMR01 admission type code 33 – Patient Injury (including poisoning in the home).

3. Unintentional INJURIES are identified using SMR01 admission type codes 32-35, these include;

32 – Patient injury, Road Traffic Accident (RTA).

33 – Patient injury, home injury (including accidental poisoning in the home).

34 – Patient injury, injury at work.

35 – Patient injury, other injury (inc. accidental poisoning other than in the home), not elsewhere classified.

NHS treatment for unintentional injuries may be provided in a number of health settings, including general practice, accident and emergency departments and as an in-patient in a hospital. Data available nationally, at a level of detail that would allow the place of the injury (e.g. home) to be identified, are only available for those patients admitted as an inpatient to a hospital. In general, it is likely that patients admitted to hospital will have a more serious injury than those treated in general practice or within accident and emergency departments.

Information on the number of those admitted as an in-patient to hospital in the period 1999-2000 to 2003-04 by age group is shown in the following table. Full information for 2004-05 is not yet available.

The Scottish Executive has procured a national accident and emergency system for recording unintentional injury that is presently being rolled out across NHSScotland.

Table 1. Number of Emergency In-Patient Hospital Admissions as a Result of an Unintentional Injury by Age Group, Year Ending 31 March

Type of Injury 1	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Home Injuries 2	18,809	17,962	17,963	17,312	16,676
	494	476	485	447	440
1-4	2,544	2,346	2,338	2,097	1,905
5-9	939	842	822	776	732
10-14	471	434	444	408	380
15-24	819	881	827	694	650
25-44	2,166	2,132	1,995	1,814	1,694
45-64	2,624	2,533	2,461	2,449	2,417
65-74	2,160	2,074	2,123	2,020	2,032
75+	6,592	6,244	6,468	6,607	6,426
All Injuries 3	66,090	66,251	67,199	64,642	60,339
	628	623	642	621	615
1-4	3,944	3,689	3,722	3,395	3,127
5-9	3,923	3,602	3,557	3,407	3,232
10-14	4,063	3,671	3,905	3,688	3,559
15-24	9,005	9,386	9,678	9,158	7,969
25-44	14,767	15,181	15,370	14,210	12,683
45-64	10,735	11,217	11,128	10,987	10,506
65-74	5,917	5,931	5,839	5,810	5,678
75+	13,108	12,951	13,358	13,366	12,970
Percentage Home Injuries	28.5	27.1	26.7	26.8	27.6
	78.7	76.4	75.5	72.0	71.5
1-4	64.5	63.6	62.8	61.8	60.9
5-9	23.9	23.4	23.1	22.8	22.6
10-14	11.6	11.8	11.4	11.1	10.7
15-24	9.1	9.4	8.5	7.6	8.2
25-44	14.7	14.0	13.0	12.8	13.4
45-64	24.4	22.6	22.1	22.3	23.0
65-74	36.5	35.0	36.4	34.8	35.8
75+	50.3	48.2	48.4	49.4	49.5

Source:ISD Scotland (SMR01).

Notes:

1. These statistics are derived from data collected on discharges from non-obstetric and non-psychiatric hospitals (SMR01) in Scotland.

2. Home injuries are identified using SMR01 admission type code 33 – Patient Injury (inc poisoning in the home).

3. Unintentional injuries are identified using SMR01 admission type codes 32-35, these include;

32 – Patient injury, Road Traffic Accident (RTA).

33 – Patient injury, Home injury (including accidental poisoning in the home).

34 – Patient injury, injury at work.

35 – Patient injury, other injury (including accidental poisoning other than in the home), not elsewhere classified.