- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will meet West Lothian and North Lanarkshire councils to discuss the case for a balanced city region approach and address any problems and issues that face the substantial urban economies of the central belt.
Answer
Officials from the Enterprise,Transport and Lifelong Learning Department of the Scottish Executive met recently with representatives from North Lanarkshire and West Lothian councilsto discuss economic development and collaboration in their areas and arewilling to engage further as appropriate.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many looked after children did not have a social worker in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. However, in his third annual report
Progress with Complexity,published in January this year, the Chief Social Work Inspector found that of atotal of around 11,400 looked after children and young people in Scotland, severalhundred have no social worker (see
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/social/prco.pdf).Audit Scotland also published information on children onsupervision requirements without an allocated social worker in their follow upreport on dealing with youth offending published in November 2003 seehttp://www.audit-scotland.gov.uk/publications/pdf/2003/03pf11ag.pdf.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications for adoption of children have been granted in each year since 1999 and what the average age of child adopted was in each year.
Answer
The figures requested werepublished by the Scottish Executive on 18 March 2003 see
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00243-00.asp)
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on West Lothian Council's support for a full community and health care partnership building on the success of its integrated trust model, the joint future arrangements for community services expanded to include appropriate services for children, the health improvement agenda and the West Lothian Community Planning Partnership and whether the Scottish Executive will issue guidance to ensure that West Lothian Council representation on such a community and health care partnership's management committee includes trade union representatives and a politically-balanced representation of elected members.
Answer
The establishment of communityhealth partnerships is dependent on the passage of the NHS (Reform) ScotlandBill. The views of a wide range of stakeholders have been taken into account inpreparing the draft legislation and the guidance which will describe thegovernance arrangements for community health partnerships. When the legislationis in place NHS boards will be required to submit to Ministers proposals forthe establishment of community health partnerships in the NHS board’s area. Itwould not be appropriate to comment on a particular model for a community healthpartnership until the legislation is in place and the proposals from NHS boardshave received full consideration.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will ensure that, following NHS Lothians' review of better acute care, the acute medical and surgical admissions facilities at the Western General Hospital and St John's Hospital will not close.
Answer
Proposals that emerge from NHSLothian’s review of possible future patterns of acute care across its area willbe subject to full public consultation. The board must obtain the Scottish Executive’s endorsement of its overall strategy in the light of publicconsultation. It would not be appropriate, therefore, for me to comment on anyparticular form of service provision at this stage.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children have been in foster care placements in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The table below shows the number of looked after children in foster care on 31 March, in each year between 1999 and 2003.
| Local Authority Area | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 |
| Aberdeen City | 210 | 155 | 120 | 130 | 95 |
| Aberdeenshire | 90 | 115 | 110 | 115 | 115 |
| Angus | 75 | 75 | 65 | 85 | 95 |
| Argyll and Bute | 35 | 30 | 25 | 30 | 40 |
| Clackmannanshire | 35 | 30 | 35 | 35 | 35 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 120 | 105 | 125 | 125 | 145 |
| Dundee City | 125 | 150 | 120 | 120 | 125 |
| East Ayrshire | 30 | 55 | 70 | 65 | 85 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 5 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 10 |
| East Lothian | 55 | 65 | 80 | 75 | 80 |
| East Renfrewshire | 10 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 10 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 305 | 330 | 325 | 320 | 340 |
| Eilean Siar | 10 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 15 |
| Falkirk | 90 | 85 | 100 | 85 | 105 |
| Fife | 180 | 160 | 190 | 185 | 200 |
| Glasgow City | 655 | 685 | 640 | 715 | 705 |
| Highland | 180 | 115 | 110 | 105 | 95 |
| Inverclyde | 30 | 30 | 25 | 25 | 25 |
| Midlothian | 50 | 55 | 40 | 45 | 50 |
| Moray | 95 | 55 | 60 | 55 | 60 |
| North Ayrshire | 60 | 45 | 75 | 55 | 60 |
| North Lanarkshire | 120 | 135 | 145 | 140 | 135 |
| Orkney Islands | 5 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 5 |
| Perth and Kinross | 65 | 50 | 55 | 65 | 65 |
| Renfrewshire | 80 | 70 | 80 | 85 | 105 |
| Scottish Borders | 75 | 65 | 70 | 80 | 80 |
| Shetland Islands | 10 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| South Ayrshire | 20 | 30 | 35 | 50 | 55 |
| South Lanarkshire | 80 | 80 | 70 | 75 | 80 |
| Stirling | 60 | 60 | 60 | 55 | 55 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 70 | 70 | 60 | 70 | 70 |
| West Lothian | 120 | 105 | 145 | 120 | 135 |
| Scotland | 3,155 | 3,058 | 3,084 | 3,170 | 3,288 |
Notes:
1. Figures are rounded to the nearest five, to preserve confidentiality.
2. Table excludes children on a planned series of short term placements.
3. Table includes rounded estimates for local authorities not able to provide information.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how important it is for the economic significance and potential of the West Lothian and North Lanarkshire area to be recognised if the city regions of Edinburgh and Glasgow are to be properly developed.
Answer
As indicated in BuildingBetter Cities, our framework policy document for Scotland’scities, the Executive recognises the importance of city-regions and theeconomic significance and potential of West Lothian and North Lanarkshire in developing the city-regions of Edinburgh and Glasgow.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many looked after children were in full time education in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. However, in February 2003, the Executive published a report onprogress with implementing the recommendations of Learning with Care.This showed that all local authorities reported between 90% and 100% of lookedafter children as being in receipt of full-time education, although localauthorities were not consistent in including children being looked after athome in this return. This position is supplemented by information in the third annualreport of the Chief Social Work Inspector, Progress With Complexity, whichsets out the actions being taken by local authorities to improve theeducational attainment of looked after children, including the introduction ofpersonal education plans.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to vary the amount payable under its graduate endowment scheme.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-5756 on 9 February 2004.All answers to written parliamentary questionss 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: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the specialist burns unit and associated plastic surgery facility at St John's Hospital will be retained at no less than their current operational scope and si'e.
Answer
Decisions about the scaleand configuration of healthcare services are matters for NHS boards, withinnational priorities and guidelines. In planning services, boards are obliged totake account of the assessed current and future needs of patients, and the existingand planned pattern of service provision regionally, and, where appropriate,nationally.
