Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.
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To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-37806 by Natalie Don-Innes on 4 June 2025, how many early learning and childcare settings have been evaluated as "excellent" by the Care Inspectorate, in each year from 2015 to 2024, also expressed as a percentage.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-37806 by Natalie Don-Innes on 4 June 2025, how many early learning and childcare settings have been evaluated as "very good" by the Care Inspectorate, in each year from 2015 to 2024, also expressed as a percentage.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-37806 by Natalie Don-Innes on 4 June 2025, how many early learning and childcare settings have been evaluated as "adequate" by the Care Inspectorate, in each year from 2015 to 2024, also expressed as a percentage.
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding the Armed Forces Covenant obligation on NHS boards to have due regard for the unique challenges faced by service children, what discussions the veterans minister has had with ministerial colleagues in relation to ensuring that relocations for military postings do not lead to service children being reprioritised to the back of NHS waiting lists, including through the provision of guidance to clinical teams to ensure that this does not happen.
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Minister for Higher and Further Education has held any meetings with youth organisations since May 2021, and, if so, whether it will provide a breakdown of any such meetings by (a) date and (b) topic.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has received any reports from local authorities or representative bodies regarding financial distress, debt accumulation or insolvency risk among early years providers in the past three years.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has undertaken or commissioned any national reviews or audits of youth centre provision since 2019, and, if so, whether it will publish the findings.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it holds any national benchmarking or audit data regarding the accessibility and quality of youth centres.
To ask the Scottish Government what data it holds on the number of qualified youth workers that are currently employed in Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has undertaken of the impact of public funding levels on the long-term viability of (a) private and (b) third sector early years settings.