- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 15 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of staff who have worked directly with children in each year since 2000 did not hold a qualification in childcare at SVQ level 2 or above.
Answer
The information requested forthe year 2005 is given in table 1.11 of
Pre-Schooland Childcare Workforce Statistics 2005 published by Scottish Executive NationalStatistics in 2006, a copy of which is available in the Scottish ParliamentInformation Centre (Bib. number 39531).
The information requested priorto 2005 is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 15 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive when the guidance on children’s services plans will be updated.
Answer
We intend to consult local partnershipson updated guidance in May and we hope to finalise it by the end of June.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 15 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average hourly pay rate is for staff working in the childcare sector who do not directly work with children.
Answer
The information requested forthe year 2005 is given in Table 1.13 of
Pre-Schooland Childcare Workforce Statistics 2005 published by Scottish Executive NationalStatistics in 2006 a copy of which is available in the Scottish ParliamentInformation Centre (Bib. number 39531).
Information for the period priorto 2005 is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 15 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how the membership of the Children and Young People Delivery Group was determined.
Answer
The remit and membership of theChildren and Young People Delivery Group were considered and agreed by the Cabinetin 2003.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 15 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many social workers have left employment in children's services in each year since 2000, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The information requested isnot currently held centrally. The Scottish Executive is collecting informationon social workers starting and leaving employment with Scottish localauthorities during the October 2005 to September 2006 period. Subject to theaccuracy, reliability and completeness of this data, it will be publishedalongside results of the October 2006 annual Social Work Services StaffingSurvey which is currently planned for July 2007. Information on the numbers ofsocial workers employed by Scottish local authorities is available as part of the
Statistics Publication Notices: Health and Care Series: Social WorkerPosts and Vacancies publications, currently produced quarterly andavailable at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/Recent.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 15 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the current number of vacancies for staff within pre-school and childcare centres are for temporary posts.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 15 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to reduce the 58% of childcare staff who leave the sector for jobs which do not involve childcare.
Answer
The actual percentage of childcare staff that left their employer during 2005 and reported they were moving toa job which did not involve working with children was 11%.
Staff retention is primarilythe responsibility of employers. The National Review of the Early Years and ChildcareWorkforce has considered the issues around recruitment and retention in the sector.The review will be published soon.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 12 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers were unfit for duty as a result of stress in each year since 2001, broken down by force area and expressed also as a percentage of the total number of police officers.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 11 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has calculated the financial, social and other benefits to the Scottish economy of allowing asylum seekers to take up paid employment whilst their applications for refugee status are being considered.
Answer
Asylum and Immigration policy,including the right to work for asylum seekers, is the responsibility of theHome Office. The Scottish Executive has not made any calculations around thispolicy.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 11 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners had an existing diagnosed mental health problem on entering prison in each year since 2000.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron,Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is asfollows:
The Health Care team assesseach prisoner’s mental health problems on reception into prison, withappropriate support thereafter. Information on the number of prisoners withproblems is not collected centrally.
