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This information is not heldcentrally.

Figures for full-time equivalenteducational psychology posts, and vacant posts, as at 18 February 2005 and broken downby education authority area, were provided in the answer to question S2W-17903 on17 August 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

None. The Victorian Olympic Council (VOC) has been in directcontact with the National Olympic Committees. In the case of British Olympians,the VOC has been dealing with the British Olympians Club (associated with and representingthe interests of the British Olympic Association).

Whilst health boards are notrequired specifically to produce a positive mental health strategy, healthministers annually discuss mental health as one of a range of key issues aroundperformance each year for individual health boards. This annual review process includesassessment of performance on all aspects of mental health including the actionstaken by health boards, as part of health improvement strategies, to promote positivemental health.

Health boards are encouragedto play their part in promoting positive mental health as an integral part of theirbroader action on mental health.

The information requested isnot held centrally.

Local authorities have aduty under Sections 25 to 27 of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland)Act 2003 to provide services designed to promote the well-being and socialdevelopment of people with a mental disorder.

The positive mental healthmessages and actions required under the act 2003 are being delivered by local authoritiesnationally. Each local authority is at a different stage of development and progressis being monitored as part of on-going attention to delivery of the act bypartner agencies.

Table 1:

Number of Continuous In-PatientStays (CIS) Involving an Admission Due to Deliberate Self Harm in Children Under16 Years, by NHS Board of Residence; Year Ending 31 December 1999-2004.

NHS Board of Residence	Year Ending 31 December
	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Scotland	582	672	704	736	713	587
Argyll and Clyde	55	57	57	67	46	42
Ayrshire and Arran	54	59	45	68	70	84
Borders	10	8	19	17	15	17
Dumfries and Galloway	19	18	11	15	12	6
Fife	40	46	51	63	69	42
Forth Valley	23	43	50	37	21	20
Grampian	63	74	118	124	106	112
Greater Glasgow	103	101	85	80	79	64
Highland	13	20	29	15	36	24
Lanarkshire	54	56	70	60	69	50
Lothian	83	76	94	120	122	82
Orkney	2	5	2	2	2	-
Shetland	1	8	1	3	4	3
Tayside	62	95	70	56	51	35
Western Isles	-	6	2	9	11	6
Other	4	3	2	5	3	2

 

Please note that across Scotlandvarying admissions policies apply. In some health board areas everyone underthe age of 16 treated in hospital for injuries as the result of deliberate self-harmwill be admitted. This is not the case in other areas.

The Scottish Executive iscurrently involved in several initiatives that are aimed at raising awarenessof self-harm among young people.

The See Me campaign iscurrently involved in a phase of campaign activity aimed at children and youngpeople that specifically addresses self-harming behaviour and challengesattitudes towards those who self-harm.

The Scottish Executive’s Childrenand Adolescent Mental Health Framework is inclusive of those who self-harm.Heads Up Scotland, the National Project for Children and Young People’s MentalHealth aims to support local work to improve the mental health and well-beingof children and young people.

Choose Life the Executive’sSuicide Prevention Strategy and Action Plan is being implemented through actionplans agreed with Community Planning Partners in each local authority area in Scotland. Arange of these action plans include funding for work to tackle self-harm amongyoung people, where self-harm has been identified as a risk factor that cancause suicide.

NHS Health Scotland hasproduced an information and resource booklet Talking about Self-harmdesigned for individuals, primarily those who are over 16 years old who are self-harmingand their peers and families.

The Executive will seekfurther opportunities to build on this work in the future.

Local authorities and healthboards in Scotland do not have specific set targets for the promotionof positive mental health. Therefore, monitoring and audit specifically of suchtargets is not currently required.

Health Ministers undertake,each year with individual health boards, an annual review to discuss key issuesaround performance. This includes performance on all aspects of mental healthincluding the actions taken by health boards, as part of health improvementstrategies, to promote positive mental health.

The positive mental healthmessages and actions required under the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland)Act 2003 are being delivered by local authorities nationally. Each local authorityis at a different stage of development and progress is being monitored as partof ongoing attention to delivery of the act by partner agencies.

In presenting statistics on suicidesit is conventional to combine deaths classified as intentional self-harm (suicides)with those classified as events of undetermined intent. This is because the majorityof the latter are likely to have been suicides. However, this assumption is knownto be less valid for children, particularly those aged under 10. For this reasonthe following table shows the two categories separately and restricts the informationon events of undetermined intent to deaths aged 10 to 15.

NHS Board Area1	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Deaths Aged Under 16 from Intentional Self-Harm (Suicides)
Scotland	4	8	6	3	4	3
Grampian	1	2
Tayside					3	1
Fife		1	1			2
Lothian	1	2	1	2
Argyll and Clyde2	1
Greater Glasgow			3	1	1
Lanarkshire	1	3
Ayrshire and Arran			1
Deaths Aged 10 to 15 Classified as Events of Undetermined Intent
Scotland	3	4		2	1
Lothian		1		1
Forth Valley	1
Argyll and Clyde2				1
Greater Glasgow		1
Lanarkshire	1	2			1
Ayrshire and Arran	1

Notes:

1. NHS boardareas with no relevant deaths have been omitted.

2. Both thedeaths in Argyll and Clyde were residents of that part of Argylland Clyde now administered by NHS Greater Glasgow.

I refer the member to the answer to question S1W-26485 on 3 July 2002 providing information on all advertisingspend, including the teacher recruitment campaign, by the Scottish Office/ScottishExecutive Departments from 1991-92 to  2001-02.

In the year’s 2002-03 and2003-04 the Teacher Recruitment advertising campaign did not run.

Information on the Scottish Executive’sadvertising spend for 2004-05 can be found at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/About/Departments/FCSD/17963/adspend05.

Scottish Executive advertisingspend for the teacher recruitment campaign  2005-06 are detailed below:

Year	Spend
2005-06 (not reconciled)	£618,668.60

 

All figures quoted are grossamounts (including VAT).

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.