- Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 13 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many students are expected to graduate as educational psychologists in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003.
Answer
The information requested is not available. It is not possible to provide analysis at this level of disaggregation. Educational Psychology is a specialism that students might take up in their second, or more likely, their third year of study.
- Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 13 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to review the operation of Records of Needs to ensure similarity of provision across Scotland.
Answer
The new national Special Educational Needs Advisory Forum, chaired by Peter Peacock, Deputy Minister for Children and Education, will review all aspects of the Record of Needs process.
- Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 13 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Records of Needs are currently in place in each local authority.
Answer
The information requested is given in the table below.
Number of pupils with a Record of Needs, by Education Authority |
Local Authority | Primary | Secondary | Special | Total | %age of School Roll |
Scotland | 3,869 | 4,589 | 6,934 | 15,392 | 1.95% |
Aberdeen City | 169 | 150 | 476 | 795 | 2.61% |
Aberdeenshire | 168 | 191 | 292 | 651 | 1.76% |
Angus | 118 | 159 | | 277 | 1.66% |
Argyll & Bute | 51 | 64 | 45 | 160 | 1.16% |
Clackmannanshire | 25 | 71 | 86 | 182 | 2.10% |
Dumfries & Galloway | 239 | 215 | 30 | 484 | 2.14% |
Dundee City | 191 | 206 | 188 | 585 | 2.62% |
East Ayrshire | 109 | 145 | 169 | 423 | 2.18% |
East Dunbartonshire | 28 | 28 | 96 | 152 | 0.78% |
East Lothian | 73 | 48 | | 121 | 0.90% |
East Renfrewshire | 67 | 107 | 43 | 217 | 1.35% |
Edinburgh, City of | 225 | 145 | 687 | 1,057 | 1.75% |
Eilean Siar | 63 | 45 | | 108 | 2.44% |
Falkirk | 98 | 125 | 311 | 534 | 2.52% |
Fife | 165 | 211 | 216 | 592 | 1.10% |
Glasgow City | 242 | 226 | 1,895 | 2,363 | 2.75% |
Highland | 309 | 404 | 156 | 869 | 2.56% |
Inverclyde | 128 | 140 | 138 | 406 | 2.89% |
Midlothian | 40 | 15 | 131 | 186 | 1.44% |
Moray | 133 | 150 | 13 | 296 | 2.06% |
North Ayrshire | 107 | 185 | 197 | 489 | 2.23% |
North Lanarkshire | 195 | 217 | 493 | 905 | 1.70% |
Orkney Islands | 12 | 23 | 8 | 43 | 1.34% |
Perth & Kinross | 143 | 123 | 118 | 384 | 1.83% |
Renfrewshire | 169 | 291 | 354 | 814 | 2.93% |
Scottish Borders | 126 | 129 | 5 | 260 | 1.67% |
Shetland Islands | 52 | 26 | | 78 | 1.99% |
South Ayrshire | 104 | 176 | 85 | 365 | 2.05% |
South Lanarkshire | 179 | 353 | 432 | 964 | 1.97% |
Stirling | 33 | 136 | 68 | 237 | 1.80% |
West Dunbartonshire | 28 | 20 | 92 | 140 | 0.88% |
West Lothian | 80 | 65 | 110 | 255 | 1.01% |
Source: Data collected by the School Census in September 1998.
Note: The above figures show the Education Authorities that are educating the pupils. Some EAs pay others to educate pupils on their behalf - which limits how much comparison is possible between Eas.
- Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 13 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many vacancies there are for educational psychologists in each local authority.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. The Executive will soon meet with the Association of Scottish Principal Educational Psychologists (ASPEP) to review the supply and demand for educational psychologists to ensure that the appropriate balance is achieved.
- Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 13 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will issue guidelines for planning authorities on the use of barbed and ra'or wire on the perimeters of buildings.
Answer
No. Planning Advice Note 46: Planning for Crime Prevention, published in October 1994, gives advice to planning authorities on how crime prevention and community safety can be taken into account in planning, however, the advice does not address the specific legal issues surrounding the use of barbed and razor wire.
- Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will review the effectiveness of current legislation affecting the use of barbed and ra'or wire.
Answer
As part of the legislation which we intend to bring forward to establish a right of access to land, there will be powers to enable local authorities to order the removal of obstructions such as barbed and razor wire erected to prevent the exercise of the new right. Other than this, we have no plans at present to review the effectiveness of the law affecting the use of barbed and razor wire.
- Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 24 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will announce the outcome of its evaluation of further flood prevention measures in Kilmarnock and Loudoun.
Answer
I am fully aware of the recent flooding in Kilmarnock and Loudoun and of the concerns of those affected. Scottish Executive officials have been consulted informally on East Ayrshire Council's proposed programme of works for reducing flood risk in its area and, in principle, are satisfied with the Council's proposals.
It is for the Council, in conjunction with its consultants, to take forward these proposals and to submit formal Flood Prevention Schemes to the Executive to seek the necessary powers and resources to proceed with the work. It is also for the Council to decide on the timing of any work it intends to carry out and to obtain the agreement of the parties concerned.
- Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 22 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether proposed amendments to planning legislation on telecommunications masts will require operators to submit full applications for mobile phone masts.
Answer
No. The proposals I announced in the chamber on 27 October 1999 do not entail removing existing permitted development rights, but include a procedure whereby developers will be required to obtain the prior approval of the planning authority before exercising these rights.
- Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 22 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether proposed amendments to planning legislation regarding telecommunications masts will be by primary legislation or by statutory instrument.
Answer
Amendments to planning legislation relating to telecommunications development would generally be made by statutory instrument.
- Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 22 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-2113 by Sarah Boyack on 23 February 2000, what is the timescale within which it intends to bring forward amendments to planning legislation regarding telecommunications masts.
Answer
I intend to await the outcome of the Transport and the Environment Committee's inquiry into telecommunications before bringing forward amendments to planning legislation.
