- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 23 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how it ensures consistency in the quality of significant case reviews.
Answer
The aim of the current guidance
Interim Guidance For Child Protection Committees (CPCs) for Conducting Significant Case Reviews published in March 2007 is to provide more clarity and consistency on what should be done and how best to act on lessons learned from a significant case review (SCR) both locally and across Scotland.
The SCR Working Group outlined in the answer to question S3W-36024 on 23 September 2010 has looked specifically at the issue of consistency and quality assurance. The Scottish Government is considering how to take this work forward with CPCs and will set out its plans later this autumn.
A national conference will be held in November 2010 for professionals to explore the conduct and use of SCRs. The key aims are to promote best practice and consistency of approach across Scotland. It is being jointly organised by the government funded Multi-Agency Resource Centre (MARS) and the Scottish Child Care and Protection Network (SCCPN), and independently funded Centre for Learning in Child Protection (CLiCP).
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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 23 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what monitoring arrangements are in place for children who are privately fostered.
Answer
When a local authority is notified of a private fostering arrangement there are a number of duties which must be undertaken (a) prior to the placement, to determine whether it is appropriate for the child''s needs and (b), afterwards, to supervise the child''s welfare. These duties are set out in full in the Foster Children (Scotland) Act 1984 and the Foster Children (Private Fostering) (Scotland) Regulations 1985.
Under the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001, the Care Commission has a duty to inspect how the local authority meet their obligations and responsibilities with regard to private fostering in their area.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 23 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what duties are placed on those engaged in private fostering to register with a local authority.
Answer
There is no requirement to register with a local authority. Both parents and proposed carers have a duty to notify private fostering arrangements to the local authority in which the child will be living at least two weeks before the child is placed. In an emergency, where this is not possible, the local authority should be notified of the placement within one week of the placement.
These duties and the information to be provided to the local authority are set out in The Foster Children (Scotland) Act 1984 and The Foster Children (Private Fostering) (Scotland) Regulations 1985.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 21 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-34556 by Shona Robison on 23 June 2010, whether it will define one cycle of treatment of IVF services.
Answer
This is one of a number of issues currently being considered by the National Infertility Group.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 21 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether further work has been undertaken on identifying a national tariff for IVF treatment.
Answer
This is one of a number of issues currently being considered by the National Infertility Group.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 21 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost is of one cycle of IVF treatment in each NHS board.
Answer
This information is currently being collected and will be analysed by the National Infertility Group at a future meeting.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 21 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive when the National Infertility Group will next meet.
Answer
The National Infertility Group met on 21 September 2010.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 21 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what action the National Infertility Group will take on the interim report from the Infertility Network Scotland.
Answer
The National Infertility Group considered the interim report from Infertility Network Scotland at its last meeting. The group will deliver its first report to ministers by the end of 2010.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive when (a) civil servants, (b) the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing or (c) the Minister for Public Health were notified that all three ambulance control rooms were out of operation on 21 July 2010.
Answer
The Scottish Ambulance Service experienced disruption in their normal call handling operations on 21 July and there was a period of 50 minutes when all three Emergency Medical Dispatch Centres (EMDCs) were out of operation while a controlled close down and restart was carried out.
My officials were first notified of the problems being experienced in the call handling operations of the Scottish Ambulance Service at around 12:25 on 21 July 2010 and ministers offices were notified around 15 minutes later. We were then kept updated during the course of the day until normal operations were resumed.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service assisted in dealing with all 999 ambulance calls from Scotland on 21 July 2010.
Answer
In line with contingency planning arrangements that are in place for the Scottish Ambulance Service, both the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service and the North West Ambulance Service in England assisted in dealing with calls from Scotland on 21 July 2010.
The Scottish Ambulance Service has advised that during the times of 01:05 to 15:45, the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service dealt with 121 calls and the North West Ambulance Service dealt with 28 calls, less than 10% of the incidents dealt with by the ambulance service that day. Of these, some calls were found to be duplicates, therefore 125 patients had their details taken and then passed back to Scotland for an ambulance to be dispatched.
