- Asked by: Susan Deacon, MSP for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 23 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive which of the recommendations contained in Nursing for Health: A review of the contribution of nurses, midwives and health visitors to improving the public’s health in Scotland concerning school nursing have been implemented.
Answer
All of the recommendations in
Nursing for Health: A review of the contributionof nurses, midwives and health visitors to improving the public’s health in Scotlandconcerning school nursing have been implemented in whole or in part. Progress inrelation to each recommendation is outlined in the following table.
| Nursing for Health Recommendations Regarding School Nurses | Progress of Implementation as at March 2006 |
| 1. Health Boards should ensure that school nursing services are part of Primary Care Trusts and play a full role in the work of Local Health Care Co-operatives (LHCCs). | In many NHS Boards, school nursing services are managed by Primary Care Divisions. Public Health Nurse and Practitioner roles are well established in all LHCCs. |
| 2. The Scottish Executive will invest in the education of the existing school nurse workforce to ensure that team leaders have educational and grading parity with existing health visitor colleagues. | The Scottish Executive Health Department provided funding for education of school nurses. Not all NHS Boards have yet achieved grading parity with existing health visitor colleagues. |
| 3. The Scottish Executive will commission the training of an additional 60 health visitors and support 30 existing school nurses to achieve specialist practice qualifications in the short term. | Funding was given by The Scottish Executive Health Department to Primary Care Divisions to commission training in the new Public Health Nursing course which is available to both Health Visitors and School Nurses. |
| 4. The Scottish Executive will develop a new public health nurse education programme which will bring together the existing specialisms of health visiting and school nursing. | This has been implemented |
| 5. The Scottish Executive will lead the development and implementation of a new model of public health practice within schools. Significant investment will be made in education and preparing the new public health nurses to fulfil this role. | Public Health Nurses are a key part of the public health workforce. They provide a local leadership role for public health practice. |
| 6. NHS Boards should ensure that school health services are fully integrated with LHCCs and work closely with schools and other key local agencies. | Public Health Nurses and Practitioners are well established in LHCCs providing a local leadership role for public health practice. |
| 7. NHS Boards should review the resourcing of local school health services to ensure that they can develop to meet local need. | Following the publication of A Framework for Nursing in Schools, many NHS Boards have reviewed the resourcing of the school health service. |
| 8. Community Psychiatric Nurses working in child and adolescent mental health should provide support and consultancy to schools and the school health service on dealing with minor mental health issues. | Many Community Psychiatric Nurses working in child and adolescent mental health provide support to the school health service on minor mental health issues. |
- Asked by: Susan Deacon, MSP for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 21 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to make kerb-crawling an offence.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-23947 on 21 March 2006. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for whichcan be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Susan Deacon, MSP for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 21 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made in implementing the proposals contained in the report from the Expert Group on Prostitution, Being Outside: Constructing a Response to Street Prostitution.
Answer
The Executive announced itsresponse to the proposals contained in the report of the Expert Group onProstitution on 1 November 2004, outlining our policy on street prostitution. Thefull response is available on the Executive’s website at:
www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Justice/criminal/17543/Response/StreetProst.The response states that wewill produce guidance and good practice for local authorities and theircommunity planning partners. The guidance will detail how local authorities andtheir partners should address street prostitution through the communityplanning process in order to: tackle demand for prostitution; preventinvolvement in prostitution; reduce the harm for the women who are involved, andprovide assistance to women ready to leave prostitution. My officials have hada number of informal meetings with stakeholders to help prepare the guidanceand we intend to consult on draft guidance shortly.
The response also statesthat we will create a new offence which will focus on the nuisance and offencecaused by street prostitution related activity, whether caused by the purchaseror the seller. This will deliver on our commitment to criminalise the nuisanceand offence caused by kerb crawlers, and will also cover purchasers who are onfoot. The provisions would replace the existing soliciting offence and it isour present intention to include them in legislation to be introduced inParliament in the summer.
- Asked by: Susan Deacon, MSP for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 21 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made in providing local authorities and their community planning partners with guidance on dealing with street prostitution.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-23947 on 21 March 2006. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Susan Deacon, MSP for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 21 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the proposed Sentencing Bill will deal with prostitution-related offences and when it expects to introduce the Bill.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-23947 on 21 March 2006. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Susan Deacon, MSP for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 20 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total expenditure on school nursing services was in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Answer
Expenditure on school nursingservices in each of the last three years for which data is available is shown inthe following table. It is not possible to separately identify expenditure on schoolnursing services beyond 2002-03 as it is now included in central returns along withexpenditure on immunisation and community paediatrics.
| Year | Expenditure (000) |
| 2000-01 | £6,682 |
| 2001-02 | £7,439 |
| 2002-03 | £9,015 |
Data source: Scottish HealthService Costs publication.
- Asked by: Susan Deacon, MSP for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 20 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to make the same commitment on access to school nurses as the Department of Health has made in England.
Answer
The Executive believes that itis important to develop integrated teams matching the appropriate professional skillwith the identified health need. For example, in some cases, it may be more appropriateto involve members from the health promotion team or other health professional,rather than a school nurse, in health education of children.
Improvements in the health ofchildren and young people can only be achieved by many professionals and agenciesworking in partnership with one another and with children, young people and theirfamilies.
- Asked by: Susan Deacon, MSP for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 20 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-21458 by Lewis Macdonald on 20 December 2005, what information it has about the level of increase in funding for school nursing in each NHS board area.
Answer
No information is held centrally regarding the level of funding for school nursing in each NHS boardarea.
- Asked by: Susan Deacon, MSP for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 20 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it can provide about progress in implementing A Scottish framework for nursing in schools.
Answer
Implementation of thestandards in
A Scottish Framework for Nursing in Schools is beingundertaken locally by NHS boards. It is being done in co-operation with partnerorganisations such as Education Authorities, Community Health Partnerships anda wide range of health and educational professionals. Implementation is alsobeing undertaken alongside the roll out of the New Community Schools approach.
The Executive is monitoringthe implementation of the standards. The majority of NHS boards across Scotlandhave made considerable progress in implementing the standards. Fullimplementation is expected to be achieved by 2007.
- Asked by: Susan Deacon, MSP for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 20 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made in developing a strategy for social enterprise.
Answer
Scottish ministers havecommitted to developing a specific strategy for social enterprise in Scotland. The strategy will link to Scottish Executive commitmentsto deliver better public services and grow Scotland’s economy. It will also linkto the Executive’s vision for the voluntary sector and the wider social economy.
The strategy will:
set out what is meantby social enterprise;
explore the work undertakenby social enterprises;
examine support for socialenterprises, and
examine how the growthand development of social enterprises can be encouraged.
A draft strategy willbe published for consultation shortly. The strategy will include an action planwith a timetable for implementing the actions.
