- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Elaine Murray on 22 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the #21.75 million available from the New Opportunities Fund to promote the role of sport in diverting young people from offending will be allocated to projects in rural areas.
Answer
Every local authority in Scotland has been given a provisional allocation of funding to support activities, designed to promote the role of sport in diverting children and young people from crime or behaviour likely to lead to this type of activity.The provisional allocation is based on the size of school population in the local authority area and on the levels of deprivation found in the area. There is also a weighting for the three Islands authorities, to ensure that they have meaningful allocations.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 22 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the funding announced in June 2000 for the prevention of youth crime has been allocated to tackling youth crime in rural areas.
Answer
A total of £25.5 million over four years has been allocated to tackle youth offending.
The following table shows the allocation by local authority:
| Authority | Restorative Justice Grant 2001-02 | 2001-02 and 2002-03 | 2003-04 |
| Aberdeen City | £78,443 | £166,000 | £333,000 |
| Aberdeenshire | £94,095 | £106,000 | £212,000 |
| Angus | £42,311 | £76,000 | £153,000 |
| Argyll & Bute | £33,078 | £56,000 | £112,000 |
| Clackmannanshire | £19,850 | £51,000 | £101,000 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | £55,557 | £101,000 | £202,000 |
| Dundee | £56,472 | £207,000 | £414,000 |
| East Ayrshire | £48,248 | £131,000 | £263,000 |
| East Dunbartonshire | £42,612 | £51,000 | £101,000 |
| East Lothian | £34,195 | £65,000 | £130,000 |
| East Renfrewshire | £17,950 | £35,331 | £89,000 |
| Edinburgh | £163,340 | £406,000 | £812,000 |
| Falkirk | £52,700 | £131,000 | £262,000 |
| Fife | £126,460 | £314,000 | £629,000 |
| Glasgow | £436,540 | £1,086,000 | £2,171,000 |
| Highland | £63,440 | £158,000 | £316,000 |
| Inverclyde | £41,620 | £103,000 | £207,000 |
| Midlothian | £27,060 | £67,000 | £135,000 |
| Moray | £21,490 | £53,000 | £107,000 |
| North Ayrshire | £66,860 | £166,000 | £333,000 |
| North Lanarkshire | £143,550 | £357,000 | £714,000 |
| Orkney | £3,400 | £20,000 | £40,000 |
| Perth and Kinross | £32,730 | £81,000 | £163,000 |
| Renfrewshire | £76,280 | £190,000 | £379,000 |
| Scottish Borders | £24,010 | £60,000 | £119,000 |
| Shetland | £4,500 | £20,000 | £40,000 |
| South Ayrshire | £34,300 | £85,000 | £171,000 |
| South Lanarkshire | £110,920 | £276,000 | £552,000 |
| Stirling | £25,370 | £63,000 | £126,000 |
| West Dunbartonshire | £57,230 | £142,000 | £285,000 |
| West Lothian | £58,250 | £145,000 | £290,000 |
| Western Isles | £5,570 | £20,000 | £40,000 |
| Total | £2 million | £5 million /£5 million | £10 million |
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 22 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made in developing closer links between the youth justice system and agencies dealing with children and young people who are at risk of offending.
Answer
All authorities have multi-agency youth justice teams in place. The Executive is completing a mapping exercise of all local authorities to measure their progress in working with children and young people who offend or are at risk of offending. The results will be available in the Parliament's Reference Centre shortly. We are also holding quarterly national networking events for youth justice practitioners to disseminate good practice and to support policy development.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 22 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of young people referred to Children's Panels live in rural areas.
Answer
Statistics relating to the children's hearings system are an operational matter for the Scottish Children's Reporter Administration. National statistics are available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 18780).
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS boards have specialist eating disorder services.
Answer
Throughout Scotland, people suffering from eating disorders are diagnosed and treated by general psychiatrists. In addition, specialist services have been established in Lanarkshire, Lothian, Highland and Grampian. These services range from specialist eating disorder teams to single nurse specialist posts. Some of the specialist services are available to residents of other NHS board areas.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made in implementing the recommendations of its Mental Health and Wellbeing Support Group regarding the proposed "fit for purpose" network of services.
Answer
The Mental Health and Well Being Support Group continues its visits to the relevant agencies in each area and publishes a report on the progress made in each case, in implementing the
Framework for Mental Health Services in Scotland modernisation agenda. Each report now includes an overall summary which assesses the stage reached on individual components of a good fit for purpose mental health service. For example, an assessment of the local approach to eating disorder and psychological interventions services are included. These reports are available on the support group's website at:
www.show.scot.nhs.uk/mhwbsg.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it costs to train a nurse in the specialist treatment and care of patients with eating disorders.
Answer
Costs will vary. However, the estimated cost of training a pre-registration mental health nursing student is around £30,000. To train a community psychiatric nurse can add a further £21,000.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people with eating disorders are currently being treated as in-patients in Tayside.
Answer
The numbers of patients are very low (under five) and to provide the exact figure could allow them to be identified, which would breach their right to patient confidentiality.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many males with (a) anorexia nervosa and (b) bulimia the NHS in Scotland has treated in the last 12 months.
Answer
The following table shows the number of males treated in an acute general hospital, mental illness hospital or psychiatric unit between July 2000 and June 2001:
| | Anorexia Nervosa | Bulimia |
| Male patients | 7 | 4 |
Source: ISD Scotland, SMR01/04.Provisional.A sample of general practitioner consultations, produces figures which are too low to allow a meaningful, robust national estimate of those treated by primary care services.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what information programmes are in operation to give advice to students about eating disorders.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-23216 on 11 March 2002.
