- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 29 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements it has put in place for a review of arrangements for specialist programmes, as recommended in section 2.13 of Secure Accommodation Advisory Group Interim Report May 2001.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-30448 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 29 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what records are now kept by secure units in relation to young people retained in secure accommodation due to a lack of follow-up facilities, as recommended in section 2.7 of Secure Accommodation Advisory Group Interim Report May 2001.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-30448 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 29 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what (a) alternatives to secure care exist and (b) funding was allocated to these alternatives in (i) 1999-2000, (ii) 2000-01, (iii) 2001-02 and (iv) 2002-03 to date.
Answer
There are a number of close support units in Scotland, offering alternatives to secure accommodation. Local authorities are also able to use youth crime monies to develop such services, £13.5 million has been allocated to local authorities between 1999-2000 to 2002-03. On 18 October, I announced a new Intensive Support Fund of £3 million to enable both local authorities and voluntary organisations to increase the level of community-based supervision of young offenders, to improve the quality of care in secure and to improve support for those returning to their communities from secure accommodation.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 29 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps have been taken, and when, regarding financial support for the provision of secure care, as recommended in section 2.5 of Secure Accommodation Advisory Group Interim Report May 2001.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-30448 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 29 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has funded a feasibility study into providing a 24-hour online information service on placing for local authorities, as recommended in section 2.12 of Secure Accommodation Advisory Group Interim Report May 2001.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-30448 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 29 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Kerelaw School has been replaced, as recommended in section 2.4 of Secure Accommodation Advisory Group Interim Report May 2001.
Answer
The Secure Accommodation Advisory Group's interim report has not yet been published and I am therefore not in a position at present to comment on its recommendations.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 29 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any specific small institution funding could be made available to the Heriot-Watt University Scottish Borders campus in relation to its textile, clothing and fashion courses.
Answer
The allocation of funds to individual higher education institutions is a matter for the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council (SHEFC). Ministers are expressly prevented, in terms of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992, from framing SHEFC grant conditions by reference to particular institutions or programmes.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 29 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it has taken with regard to the impact of the European Convention on Human Rights on issues relating to secure accommodation, as recommended in section 2.14 of Secure Accommodation Advisory Group Interim Report May 2001.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-30448 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 29 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has issued guidelines on the average caseload of community social workers.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has issued no guidance on average caseloads for social workers working in the community. Employers take account of complexity, local circumstances such as geography and the experience of individual social workers in determining caseloads.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 28 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners have been taken from HM Prison Cornton Vale to hospital for reasons other than for routine treatment in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01, (c) 2001-02 and (d) 2002-03 to date.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The readily available information is as follows:
| Year | Number |
| 1999 | 48 |
| 2000 | 62 |
| 2001 | 75 |
| Jan-Sept 2002 | 40 |
