- Asked by: Roz McCall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 October 2025
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Current Status:
Answer expected on 20 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to Public Health Scotland’s Scottish Stroke Improvement Programme 2025 annual national report, which shows that none of Scotland’s NHS boards have achieved the target standard of at least 80% of stroke patients receiving the most basic levels of stroke care, which is also known as "the stroke care bundle", when first admitted to hospital.
Answer
Answer expected on 20 November 2025
- Asked by: Roz McCall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 October 2025
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Current Status:
Answer expected on 20 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to ensure that NHS boards achieve a standard of 100% of stroke patients receiving the most basic levels of care, which is also known as "the stroke care bundle", when first admitted to hospital, in light of reports of that no NHS board currently achieves the lesser standard of at least only 80% of patients.
Answer
Answer expected on 20 November 2025
- Asked by: Roz McCall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 September 2025
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 1 October 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that alcohol-specific deaths in Scotland remain above 1,000 for the 12th year in a row.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 1 October 2025
- Asked by: Roz McCall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 September 2025
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 25 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the latest Homelessness in Scotland statistics.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 25 September 2025
- Asked by: Roz McCall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 September 2025
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 17 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is planning to make any changes to Historic Environment Scotland.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 17 September 2025
- Asked by: Roz McCall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 August 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom Arthur on 27 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what funding was in place for the Psychology of Parenting Programme in (a) 2023-24 and (b) 2024-25.
Answer
The Psychology of Parenting Programme (PoPP) is funded through NHS Education Scotland (NES)’s Parenting workstream, which covers various programmes of work (including PoPP) to support the social, emotional and behavioural development of infants, children, young people and their families. In financial year 2023-24, the Scottish Government allocated £633,040 to NES to support the Parenting workstream, with a further £571,542 issued in 2024-25.
- Asked by: Roz McCall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 July 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Natalie Don-Innes on 4 August 2025
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.
Answer
The Scottish Government recognises the need for effective partnership working across all relevant sectors, including health, to optimise the outcomes of secure care placements and to ensure children have continued access to the care and support in environments that are best suited to their individual needs.
The Scottish Government’s response https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-government-response-reimagining-secure-care-report/pages/8/ to the reimagining secure care report, published 26 June, sets out the government’s long-term focus to improve the coordination and integration between different parts of the child care system, including mental health. Page 22 of the response sets out a range of actions underway to strengthen the provision of mental health support for children, including:
- Funding of just under £3.5 million in 24-25 across the West, East and North of Scotland to support the planning and development of regional elements of the CAMHS Service Specification. This includes the development of a four-bed Adolescent Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit (IPCU) in the West of Scotland and the development of Learning Disability, Forensic CAMHS and Intensive Home Treatment CAMHS services and regional pathways.
- This includes funding to the West of Scotland, led by NHS GGC, to establish regional CAMHS pathways for those children and young people with forensic needs, in line with the requirements set out in the National CAMHS Service Specification. This funding will support the planning and development of community Forensic CAMHS and CAMHS in Secure Care services and regional pathways.
- As part of this, the West of Scotland regional planning team have developed a regional specification supporting both the FCAMHS and FCAMHS to secure care pathways and will progress to implementation stage once governance and financial arrangements are agreed in coming months.
- The development of the National Secure Adolescent Inpatient Service (NSAIS), known as Foxgrove commissioned by National Services Division, will initially provide four beds for children and young people aged 12-18 years who require psychiatric care in an inpatient setting with medium levels of security. Foxgrove is due to open at the end of 2025.
These will be vital additions to children and young people’s mental health services in Scotland, providing appropriate care and treatment in the right place at the right time, which in turn will support improved mental health care for children and young people in secure care facilities and could reduce psychiatric admission to non-specialist wards and avoid unnecessary admission to psychiatric inpatient care.
- Asked by: Roz McCall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 July 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Natalie Don-Innes on 31 July 2025
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.
Answer
The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) is the regulator for the social work, social care and early years workforce in Scotland. The Council protects the public by registering workers in social services; setting standards for their conduct and education. While the SSSC will set the minimum level of qualification required for an individual to maintain their registration, it is the duty of employers to ensure their workers are equipped with the appropriate specialist skills to safely and effectively carry out their role.
Ensuring a sustainable, skilled and supported workforce is fundamental to the future of secure accommodation and other care settings where children with complex needs require care and protection. Pages 16-17 of the Scottish Government’s response to reimagining secure care, published on 26 June, sets out a number of actions the Government is taking to support this:
- a commitment to continuing to pay for up to 16 beds across the secure estate in 2025-26 and 2026-27, to maintain capacity and to provide a level of financial security and resilience to secure providers.
- a commitment to raise the status of children’s social care as a profession, which is key to delivering quality care to vulnerable children.
- a further investment of £1.4 million in 2025-26 to the secure care workforce as part of the Scottish Government’s commitment to Fair Work in children’s social care. This investment will continue to address recruitment and retention challenges in the sector and contribute to its sustainability now and in the future.
- supporting improved implementation of national policy informed by frontline practice, and oversight of social work and the issues affecting the workforce through the establishment of the NSWA by April 2026.
- bringing both national and local government together to address workforce issues through the establishment of the Scottish Social Work Partnership.
- uplifting the value of the social work postgraduate bursary administered by the Scottish Social Services Council to £11,000 per year of an eligible qualifying course, from academic year 2025-26.
- working at pace with industry leaders and Skills Development Scotland to introduce a Graduate Apprenticeship, a new work-based professional social work qualification for academic year 2025-26.
- Asked by: Roz McCall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 July 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Natalie Don-Innes on 31 July 2025
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.
Answer
By learning from existing local authority and regionalised multidisciplinary models, Scotland could develop a network of community-based hubs that provide effective, rights-respecting alternatives to secure accommodation.
Our recently-published response to reimagining secure care confirms that the Scottish Government agrees with this proposal in principle. Further exploration will be necessary with COSLA – and with wider partners - regarding the scalability, impact and value of this model. That exploration and testing will feature in Phase 2 of our planned actions in this area.
- Asked by: Roz McCall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 July 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Natalie Don-Innes on 31 July 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will commit to a full review of the current
funding and commissioning model for secure care.
Answer
The current system requires a fundamental review to ensure equity, transparency and efficiency. Piloting, testing and evaluating possible new resourcing models will be essential. To gather evidence as to what would work best to deliver a reliable, high quality range of services within, and related to, secure care, the Scottish Government will consult in 2025-26 to assess viability and effectiveness of some of the proposed options.
Page 18 of the recently-published response to reimagining secure care confirms that position: The Scottish Government will work in partnership with Scotland Excel, secure providers and commissioning authorities to consult on and co-design a new national commissioning model that reflects our shared aspirations for the future of secure care. This process will consider potential changes in funding and commissioning arrangements to better serve the needs of children across Scotland.
