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The Scottish Government is currently working to develop a new Child and Adolescent Health and Wellbeing strategy. This will be produced in Autumn 2017 following a period of consulting with key stakeholders.

The 125 to 208 beds figure in the question will likely be derived from the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Report CR182, Building and sustaining specialist CAMHS to improve outcomes for children and young people.

It is the responsibility of health boards to provide services appropriate to the needs of their local population. Children and young people referred to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) will be generally treated in the community. There may however be times when it is necessary to admit them to hospital for specialist treatment. Should this be the case they would be admitted to one of the 3 regional CAMHS inpatient units or the national unit for under 12s. These units are a highly specialist service. The young people’s units are planned on a regional basis, with the boards collaborating across three regions. The under 12s unit is planned on a national basis.

There are no current plans to increase the bed base of the 6 place unit for 5-12 years olds following a review of this service in November 2014 which found that, since 2009, the bed occupancy (excluding day patient beds) ranged from 47% in both 2009-10 and 2010-11 to 28% at its lowest.

The bed base for the North of Scotland region for 12 to 18 year olds increased from 6 to 12 in 2015.

Preparatory work for the Scottish Centre for Deep Brain Stimulation is being carried out by the host board NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

The Scottish Government expects the service to be implemented in Spring 2017, but this will be dependent on key posts being recruited and equipment being in place.

There are no current plans to review the Property Factors (Scotland) Act 2011, but a review of the code of conduct for registered property factors established under the Act is currently underway. The current code sets out minimum standards of practice which all registered property factors are obliged to comply with.

Any revised code prepared as part of that review would be subject to public consultation and approval by the Scottish Parliament.

There is no legal obligation for a private landlord to appoint a property factor to carry out repairs and improvements to their property.

There is no legal obligation on a private landlord to register as a property factor unless they fall under the meaning of property factor specified under section 2 of the Property Factors (Scotland) Act 2011. It is an offence for a person to operate as a property factor whilst unregistered.

Intensive Psychiatric Care Units (IPCU) can offer locked facilities.

Work has previously been carried out on behalf of NHS Directors of Planning and the conclusion was that CAMHS IPCU capacity should be developed at regional level. We expect the NHS Health Board regions to deliver on this.

The Promoting Excellence dementia skills and knowledge framework for health and social care staff provides baseline, enhanced and expert training for nursing and other staff working with people with dementia and covers education, pre-registration training and on-going staff development.

The Scottish Government provides on-going national funding for the implementation of the framework.

The Standards of Care for Dementia in Scotland provide guidance on standards expected when provding care in all dementia care settings, including residential care.

The Care Inspectorate will carry out 150 dementia-focused inspections in care home for older people in 2016-17. The inspections will focus on how the dementia standards have been applied in practice. An overall inspection report will be published and available on the Care Inspectorate’s website in 2017.

This information is not collected or held centrally.

Integration Joint Boards are responsible for commissioning dementia services, including post-diagnostic services, in their area. Responsibility for the delivery of those services remains with the statutory body tasked with leading the service in each area and this is determined locally.

This information is not collected or held centrally.

Integration Joint Boards are responsible for commissioning dementia services, including post-diagnostic services, in their area. Responsibility for the delivery of those services remains with the statutory body tasked with leading the service in each area and this is determined locally.