- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 13 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will meet the costs of criminal records checks for people "working regularly with vulnerable adults in the voluntary sector" once a definition has been agreed.
Answer
I refer the Member to the answer given to question S1W-13308.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 13 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive which agencies have been or are being consulted with regard to establishing a definition of "positions working regularly with vulnerable adults" in relation to extending the categories entitled to free criminal record checks for the purposes of Part V of the Police Act 1997.
Answer
A draft definition of "vulnerable adult" will shortly be the subject of consultation with relevant organisations in the statutory, voluntary and private sectors. In the meantime, we have decided that Part V criminal record checks on volunteers working with vulnerable adults in the voluntary sector may be carried out without cost to the volunteer or to the voluntary organisation concerned. This will put volunteers working with vulnerable adults on a par with those working with children.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 13 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made towards a definition of "positions working regularly with vulnerable adults" in relation to extending the categories entitled to free criminal record checks for the purposes of Part V of the Police Act 1997.
Answer
I refer the Member to the answer given to question S1W-13308 today.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 December 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 6 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners there are with mental health problems expressed as a percentage of each prison's population for the last year for which figures are available.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:For the reasons set out in the answer to question S1W-11880, this information is not recorded.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 December 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-9974 by Susan Deacon on 11 December 2000, how and when the #14.5 million to be used for care for elderly people will be allocated.
Answer
£10 million was allocated to health boards on 22 February to work with local authorities building on initiatives for older people undertaken over the winter. The balance of £4.5 million has been allocated for a range of other initiatives benefiting older people, including improvement of information systems. £3.55 million of this has been allocated to local authorities.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-11246 by Malcolm Chisholm on 9 January 2001, whether it will require local authorities to provide at the end of the financial year a detailed statement of account showing how the resources for resolving problems of delayed discharge were spent, including details of the specific purposes for which any surpluses of funds not required to deal with problems of delayed discharge were used.
Answer
Authorities are accountable to their electorates and are required to produce audited accounts as well as a wide range of information related to the £800 million they spend on community care services. However in this particular case performance is monitored through a quarterly census.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 6 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many child protection officers there currently are (a) in total and (b) in relation to the total population of children in Scotland, expressed as a children:child protection officer ratio and where these child protection officers are located.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-12813.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 6 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how the current children:child protection officer ratio in Scotland compares with the equivalent ratios in the other component parts of the UK.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-12813.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 6 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many child protection officers there were in (a) 1997-98, (b) 1998-99 and (c) 1999-2000.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. Many agencies in the statutory, voluntary and independent sectors are involved in child protection. Within these agencies, staff involved in child protection will often have wider duties and the term "Child Protection Officer" has no common or agreed meaning at a local level. We do however monitor and publish statistical information on child protection referrals.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 5 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what current funding is currently provided for day care centres, broken down by local authority.
Answer
It is for local authorities to decide how much should be spent on day care provision. The table indicates how much local authorities plan to spend on day care provision for the elderly and adults with physical and learning disabilities in 2000-01.
Net Expenditure on Day Care 2000-01 (£ million)
| Budget Estimate Net Expenditure on Day Care1 |
| Aberdeen City | 3.7 |
| Aberdeenshire | 4.7 |
| Angus | 2.9 |
| Argyll & Bute | 2.1 |
| Clackmannanshire | 1.3 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 2.3 |
| Dundee City | 3.6 |
| East Ayrshire | 1.2 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 1.3 |
| East Lothian | 1.9 |
| East Renfrewshire | 2.2 |
| Edinburgh City | 12.0 |
| Eilean Siar | 0.4 |
| Falkirk | 2.6 |
| Fife | 6.7 |
| Glasgow City | 17.4 |
| Highland | 3.6 |
| Inverclyde | 1.7 |
| Midlothian | 1.7 |
| Moray | 2.4 |
| North Ayrshire | 1.2 |
| North Lanarkshire | 15.5 |
| Orkney | 0.5 |
| Perth & Kinross | 3.5 |
| Renfrewshire | 4.8 |
| Scottish Borders | 2.1 |
| Shetland | 0.5 |
| South Ayrshire | 1.0 |
| South Lanarkshire | 5.9 |
| Stirling | 1.1 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 1.9 |
| West Lothian | 3.9 |
| Scotland | 117.5 |
Notes:1. Figures reported by local authorities on Provisional Outturn & Budget Estimates return (POBE). Figures include day care for the elderly and adults with physical and learning disabilities only. Day care for other client groups is not separately identifiable.
