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 whether it will commit to a full review of the current funding and commissioning model for secure care.
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to ensure that any community-based hubs, as proposed in the report, Reimagining Secure Care Final Report: A Vision for the Reimagined/Future World, are sustainably funded and equitably delivered across Scotland, particularly in rural and remote communities.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to address the concerns raised in the report, Reimagining Secure Care Final Report: A Vision for the Reimagined/Future World, regarding inadequate mental health provision for children in secure care, and how it plans to ensure access to consistent, trauma-responsive services.
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it will take to improve workforce qualifications and training for those who work in secure care, in light of reports that staff are often employed without the necessary specialist skills to support highly vulnerable children.
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has conducted of how any restrictions on the availability of cross-local authority funded childcare can impact on families, particularly those in full-time employment.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to support local authorities to facilitate access to 1,140 hours of funded childcare in situations where childcare is required in a different local authority area from a family's main residence.
To ask the Scottish Government what it considers would be best practice in a situation where, following a contact order, a child refuses contact with the non-resident parent.
To ask the Scottish Government whether sheriffs, judges and legal practitioners working in the civil system have undergone specialist training on domestic abuse, coercive control and the potential impact on children’s lives.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether there is a general presumption in favour of contact being in a child’s best interests when there has been domestic abuse/coercive control.
To ask the Scottish Government how a child’s best interest is assessed when considering contact and the type of contact in domestic abuse and coercive control cases.