- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average time has been to make a payment under the direct payment scheme for disabled people from point of community care assessment to payment, broken down by local authority in each year since 2003.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. Need is assessed on an individual basis and the time from referralto service delivery will be dictated by several variables, notably thecomplexity of the care package.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people with a physical disability it estimates are entitled to a direct payment which they do not currently receive.
Answer
The Executive collectsstatistics on the number of recipients of direct payments, by client group, butdoes not hold information on the numbers seeking direct payments, or those whohave been offered payments but not yet received them.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people with a learning disability it estimates are entitled to a direct payment which they do not currently receive.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-23541 on 10 March 2006. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility forwhich can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people with mental health problems it estimates are entitled to a direct payment which they do not currently receive.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-23541 on 10 March 2006. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility forwhich can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many local direct support organisations there are for people receiving direct payments and whether it will list such organisations.
Answer
In addition to the nationalorganisation the Scottish Personal Assistant Employers’ Network (SPAEN), whichoffers support to individual users across Scotland, there are currently 23 local direct paymentssupport organisations covering most of Scotland. These organisations are listed in the Table ofScottish local direct payments support organisations available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 38985).
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how it monitors the uniformity of approach across Scotland to community care assessments for disabled people seeking direct payments.
Answer
On Single Shared Assessment (SSA)generally, the Scottish Executive has issued guidance to local authorities andthe NHS on implementation, and on how to assess user satisfaction with SSAs. Ithas also issued a common data set for assessment of older people’s services andwill extend that shortly to all community care groups. It has set up a networkof managers responsible for implementation in local partnerships; is beginningto collect data on local performance on SSAs; and has invited localpartnerships to demonstrate through their Local Improvement Targets how theywill improve response times.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how it has measured the success of direct payments since the implementation of the Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002.
Answer
Since 2001 take up of directpayments has been monitored by local authorities completing a quarterly return thatasks for the number of clients receiving direct payments, split by age and clientgroup. The range of questions has been expanded for the survey of the current year2005-06, results of which will be available in September. The 2004-05 statisticsrelease is available at
Http://www.scotland.gov.uk/74529.A copy is also available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib.number 37408).
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many community care assessments were carried out in each year since 1999 for disabled people seeking direct payments, broken down by local authority.
Answer
This information is not availablecentrally.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average time is to make a community care assessment from point of request.
Answer
This information is not yetavailable centrally.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many personal assistants were employed in part or in full through the direct payments scheme in each year since 1999.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto question S2W-19002 on 16 September 2005. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility forwhich can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.The Executive is currentlycollecting data for the year 2005-06 which will be reported in September 2006. However,an informal trawl conducted in October 2005 yielded a return from 15 local authoritieswhich estimated that approximately 830 personal assistants were known to be employedat that time.
