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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S2W-25602

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 15 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what targets it has set for the number of staff holding a relevant qualification to work in pre-school and childcare centres.

Question reference: S2W-25599

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 15 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff in total have worked in pre-school and childcare centres in each year since 2000.

Question reference: S2W-25607

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 15 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the total childcare and pre-school staff in each year since 2000 were male.

The percentage of the total childcare and pre-school staff in each year since 2003 that were male is shown in thetable below. These data are from the 2005Survey of Childcare and Pre-school Education Workforce. Information for years prior to 2003 is not held centrally.

Percentage Male Employees

Year
2005	2%
2004	2%
2003	3%

Question reference: S2W-25603

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 15 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff working in pre-school and childcare centres have applied for workforce development funding since its introduction and, of these, how many applications have (a) been rejected and (b) taken more than two months to process.

Question reference: S2W-25609

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 15 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the total number of registered disabled people working in the childcare sector left the sector in each year since 2000.

Question reference: S2W-25574

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 15 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions the National Workforce Group on social work recruitment and retention has met since 2002.

Question reference: S2W-25576

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 15 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has had from the NHS raising concerns in respect of accessing funding under the Changing Children’s Services Fund.

We have not received any formalrepresentations from NHS boards. The potential for retention of resources by localauthorities from the transfer of a proportion of the fund into the local governmentsettlement was raised in informal discussions by some local partners. The distributionof Fund resources at local level is for local negotiation among partners dependingon local needs and priorities.

Our guidance emphasises the needfor local partnership working, including with NHS boards. Proposals from local partnershipsfor uptake of allocations must show that they have been agreed by the local NHSboard.

Question reference: S2W-25578

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 15 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the Changing Children’s Services Fund has gone to the voluntary sector in each year since October 2001.

Question reference: S2W-25565

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 15 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions the Children and Young People Delivery Group has met since 2001, showing the dates of each meeting.

Following Cabinet agreementof its remit on 25 June 2003, the Children and Young People Delivery Group(CYPDG) has met on eight separate occasions: 24 September 2003, 25 February2004, 15 June 2004, 15 September 2004, 26 April 2005, 25 October 2005, 8 March2006 and 21 March 2006.

Prior to the establishmentof the CYPDG, the Cabinet Committee on Children’s Services coordinated policy forChildren and Young People. The committee was constituted in December 2001following the publication of the For Scotland’s Children report inOctober 2001.

Question reference: S2W-25569

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 15 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the outstanding deficiencies in children's services, highlighted by the Children and Young People Delivery Group’s Action Team in For Scotland’s children.

“For Scotland’sChildren” made many observations about children’s services, includinghighlighting areas of good practice. Chapter 8 of the Report, which was publishedas a separate action plan, summarised difficulties in the current system andset out a six-point action plan for avoiding these difficulties and improvingservices for children over the longer term:

Consider Children’s Servicesas a Single Service System

Establish a Joint Children’sService Plan

Ensure Inclusive Access to UniversalServices

Co-ordinate Needs Assessment

Co-ordinate Intervention

Target Services.

We have made good progressin bringing about the improvements in the action plan, for example throughAdditional Support for Learning legislation and our integrated children’sservices planning framework which brings together previously separate plans forchildren’s services, school education, child health, children’s social work andyouth justice.

Implementation of Gettingit Right for Every Child will result in a unified system for both universaland targeted children’s services founded on integrated assessment, a singlerecord and plan to meet a child’s needs when multi-agency support is requiredand strengthened accountability. We are also taking new powers to compelagencies to work together and to share information where this is in the bestinterests of the child. A new Quality Improvement Framework and the roll out ofjoint inspections of children’s services will help to monitor progress.